Re: Background Checks for DBAs

This background check business seems like the perfect business for some scam artist to get into. They could "legitimately" obtain all kinds of of personal data and then redirect the results to some off-shore group that takes advantage of the information.

Of course, they'd have to cover their rear-ends fairly well, have several different companies in the biz, only use a few people's identities from each background check, use people from various geographical locations, etc. Guage or otherwise rate the people being checked on their likelihood of being a victim already (due to bad security habits, etc.) and target those people to decrease the possibilty that it tracks back to them.

Sure seems ripe for abuse.

• Bill Ferguson

On 2/21/07, J. Dex <cemail_219_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> What they are looking for is the best part of this --
>
> The consent form itself only says "the limited purpose of initiating
> security access and system user identification" and then goes on with a
> big
> disclaimer that the company is not liable for anything and that we are
> releasing them of any liability. The company tells us this is common
> practice. Don't believe it though.
>

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