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Finding Mr. Wrong: Using Background Checks to Say What Your Gut Feels

Finding Mr. Wrong It happens to all of us, one of our best girlfriends hooks with a total loser and falls for him, hard. No matter how hard you try to convince your friend to ditch her poorly chosen boyfriend, it is often hard to tell her exactly why you don't trust or like the new guy without causing an argument-think K-Fed and Britney.

So what can you do about this guy whom you know is just plain trouble? In the past, you have handled this situation by trying to beg your friend to dump him or just letting your friend find out on her own that her boyfriend is a loser. Often, your friend may perceive that you are attacking her new boyfriend without cause and your relationship may suffer. Ultimately, this may lead to your friend cutting off all contact with you and her peer group. All of these points must be taken into account before talking to your friend about her bad boyfriend.

Unfortunately, without any more evidence than your gut feeling, it may be unreasonable to expect your friend to break up with her boyfriend merely on your urging. However, with the emergence of online investigative web sites, you now have a solid weapon to use against bad boyfriends everywhere: the background check.

Background checks are a great way to determine if your gut feeling is just that or if you have a right to not like your friend's new guy. Though commonly thought of as a tool only for law enforcement officials, employers and other organizations, background checks are currently being used more by people who just want to know a little more about the pasts of other people. One of the best features of background checks is that they can be conducted anonymously, thus, your girlfriend will never even know that you wanted to learn more about her new guy. What exactly can you find out about someone by performing a background check? Surprisingly, a lot more information than you may have thought. In about a minute, most quality background check organizations can produce a report that gives you a pretty good portrait of someone's past including:

Age: Is he telling the truth?
Address(es) and Phone: Has he gone from city to city?
Real Property Ownership: Does he own his home or does he still live with mom?
Aliases: Does he go by any other names?
Possible Relatives: How come he never told you about his twin brother?
Death Index: Could he possibly have stolen someone's identity?
Marriages and Divorces: He's been married five times before? Is his divorce final?
National Criminal Records: Does he have a criminal history that he doesn't want anyone to know about?

To conduct a background check, all you need is his name, phone number or social security number. Once you have collected this information, you can visit a people search web site like PeopleFinders.com to conduct your background check. Hopefully, with the results of your background check, you will be able to better help your friend see the true nature of her boyfriend, whether that is good or bad, with more than a gut feeling to back you up. Also, your friend will surely appreciate the time you took to carefully research her new boyfriend's past before passing judgment.

Dec 19, 2006

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