| | Investigative Journalist Launches Site Comparing Skip TracingReverse Lookup Companies are everywhere promising the normal research. and the impossible. As the lay person is completely unaware of what information to reasonably expect. a veteran researcher devotes a newsite to unbiased comparison.
(PRWEB) June 12. 2006 -- Professional researcher and occasional scam-victim Michael Fitzpatrick has done the web-searching community an enormous favor by launching a blog devoted to reporting his experiences with on-line research and skip tracing companies. After weeks of whispering. the reverse lookup compare and contrast blog hosted by Blog-City was launched on Friday.Fitzpatrick. who has made a career out of locating people and information for his journalistic endeavors. was inspired to launch the project after noticing a surge in advertising by so-called skip tracing companies since February.'The thing is. these are services. not products. And although the phone number and address searches are fairly popular. it is still a niche market. albeit a flooded one. People who need information are generally new at this and have no idea what is available. who can obtain it. and which are scams run by charlatans pretending to offer something of investigative value.' he states. People searching for phone number reverse lookup information. are likely to choose the lowest priced service. everything else appearing equal. 'By Fitzpatrick's estimation. six out of ten sites flooding the cost-per-click ad market are slickly worded cons promising customers access to non-existent data. While private investigation is a regulated field. online data brokers have no governing body. no association and no oversight. 'The actions of these companies really give licensed investigators a bad name. You have actual PIs suddenly unable to drum up business because the scam artists are everywhere. Not only do they advertise like mad. but after they've finished fleecing some unsuspecting consumer. that person is not likely to trust a real investigator to obtain the results.'In the coming days and weeks. Fitzpatrick will be adding reviews of actual experiences with online vendors of location services such as reverse lookup. consumers needing investigative help. need to find a lookup or skip tracing company that is going to charge you for the actual search. The conmen to steer clear of are those offering database inquiries and do-it-yourself software downloads.# # #
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| | Posted 6/20/2006 8:18 PM
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