Friday, June 20, 2014
Spokeo is a great tool!
Thursday, March 27, 2014
How to detect 'dingbats'? (Safety in modern dating)
This recently happened to a relative of mine. The marriage had been long, not perfect, he was willing to work at it, but she wasn't.
Getting your toes wet in the dating pool, again, takes some courage.
Maybe a lot of things have changed, culturally, since you were last a swinging single?
(Or maybe you are like me, and never really were?)
There are some nice and interesting people you can meet out there, and some real nutcases.
I've learned a lot about digging for info on the internet, with my avocation of chasing scammers. Some of these things apply to real life.
My relative has just started trying online dating, via one of the very commercial, heavily advertised dating sites, that like to throw the word 'God' around.
He asked me to see what I could find out about one lady he was interested in. She was attractive, local, and of an appropriate age.
Most real people are too enthralled with the internet! They leave too much information about themselves, scattered all about the 'net. In this case, it turned out to be good that this person likes the 'net. It took a few seconds to do a search on Spokeo, and you could see this lady was not exactly wrapped too tight.
As my relative said, 'She's a dingbat!'
(A short phone call with the lady confirmed this.)
Sometimes, Spokeo is good for things like this, it will help you uncover blog posts, facebook accounts, social network profiles, pictures, and more.
If you are using online dating, or even just dating in general, Spokeo is a handy tool. You're not snooping, you are not getting access to things the person did not post on the 'net, publicly, but it may be something they forgot about, or something they conflicts with what they are telling you now, or how they are presenting themselves, now.
Another few tips:
Get one of those lowcost, pre-paid cellphones, and use that number to give to new people you meet on dating sites. You can go on Amazon.com and pick up a 'Blu' phone, and pre-paid sim card, for under $30. Do you really need some dingbat you chatted with once, calling your 'real' phone?
Use a new, 'throwaway' email account for contact with new people. (Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, etc.)
If the person is local, be very careful about giving out where you work, or live, until you have met them a few times in a neutral, safe place.
People will hand you the tools to do some checking. The phone number, email address are all easily searched. You can even learn to use google image search to see where else 'those' pictures show up on the 'net. (Do they have other dating site profiles)
Be smart! Be safe! There are some good people on the 'net, you may be able to find one.
Monday, May 27, 2013
i use SPOKEO in my internet scam research
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Spokeo, find personal info online fast
It helps you find info online about anyone who has a presence, online.
The cost is modest, and I highly recommend it!
Friday, May 11, 2012
Spokeo helped me find information I used in my divorce
I finally installed a keylogger on our home computer to document what she was up to.
(Check your local laws to see if this is legal. In my state, it was.)
I could now see who she was emailing in secret.
("You can call now. He's gone for a few days")
("He's coming home tonight. Don't come here.")
Plugging the various email addresses into the Spokeo email search option, I usually found all the information I needed about her 'special friends'.
Here's one example, the gentleman was about my age and size, OUT OF WORK,and being supported by a wife of 25 years, and had one daughter about 23.
Spokeo told me the name, and age of his Wife, and daughter.
Spokeo showed me his social network profiles.
I now had his home phone number through Spokeo.
(My wife called him on his cell phone)
I now had his home address,thanks to Spokeo, for the home he owned and lived in with his wife. I could see a picture of his house.
( I later printed out emails between Romeo and my wife, and mailed them to his wife, but since he was out of work, he intercepted them.)
I had his picture through Spokeo.
I could find and see pictures of his family. This guy was a sleazebag, chatting up women online while his wife of many years supported him.
My soon to be 'EX' deserved him!
I felt less a victim, and the information I was finding on him, and her other 'friends' steeled my resolve to stop being a 'nice guy', and end the marriage quickly, and firmly, on MY TERMS.
As it is with scammers, finding the truth is sometimes very easy, and under your nose. You just have to be ready to accept the truth, and act on it.
With Scammers, the internet is the neighborhood they prey on. You have to look for information and battle them, there, where they live.
Most people now do have a major presence on the internet, usually there is much more information about them on the 'net, and available to the public, than they realize and are comfortable with. USE THIS INFORMATION, if you need to.
Suspect something, or someone? Why wonder? The truth is out there, if you know where, or how to look. 'Technology' can be your friend, also.
Many potential employers will do a search of your email address, also. Is there something on the 'net you don't want them to see?
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