There may be hundreds of screening services out there, but no two are exactly alike. This can make the selection of a third-party service for your background check needs unnecessarily difficult. This Checkpeople.com review will describe the pluses and minuses of the background check provider and when to use their service.
Identity Verification
You can use it to confirm basic information, such as the person’s date of birth, full name, address, aliases, and sometimes, information about their relatives. This service can verify the identity of your person of interest and generate a report with more details, including social network information.
Criminal Background
Criminal background checks are a very important step in any screening process. Checkpeople searches county sheriff records, local police records, and district court and Superior Court databases.
Deep Web Search
The Deep Web search can show blog posts, sites, profiles on social media, and links related to your search target. It is very thorough, and perhaps one of their best checks. Furthermore, you can use it to gather a lot of information about an individual if you don’t have much of it to begin with.
Using Checkpeople to Self-check
The results of a self-background check should be interpreted in the context of background check laws in different states. If your state doesn’t make marriage and divorce records public, Checkpeople will show no record of either. If database information isn’t current, the tool won’t reflect that. Let’s say you search a phone number to see whom it belongs to. It might be linked to a previous owner if the phone company hasn’t updated its records.
Tracing a Lost Friend or Relative
An old friend or lost family member’s accurate location and contact info will be decisive if you want to get in touch with them. Checkpeople can make all this information available.
For Informative Purposes
You can use the service to get more information about a new person in your life, no matter how you met them. You can also use it to verify the identity of an online seller.
Pricing
Checkpeople has several pricing tiers, each of which is tailored to a different budget. There is a free trial, after which the monthly fee is around $45. If you cancel before the end of the free trial, you won’t be upgraded. Apart from that, they have three subscription plans: one month for $27.65, two months for $22.97 per month, and the power plan with limited features for $17.16 a month. The flat rate per report is $4.95.
Data Sources
Checkpeople gets its data from public records. The more information you give the site, the faster you’ll get results, and the better optimized they will be. As a bare minimum, you must provide a name and the city and state where your person of interest was born.
Key Takeaways
The first search using this service is free. The results are almost always reliable. The Deep Web search is near-instant and provides details that are typically hard to find. On the downside, you can’t use the background information from Checkpeople to screen prospective hires or tenants since it is not officially a credit reporting agency.
