| Many people are aware of a free social security | | | | Back then, it was so expensive to conduct such |
| number search service on the Internet but a lot still | | | | background investigations on one person, that's why |
| don't understand the point for such service. An SSN | | | | today's world is lucky,indeed, to have found an ally in |
| verification tool can actually work a number of ways | | | | technology through the Internet. One simply has to log |
| for different people. IN other words, there can be | | | | on to a search site and type in the person's SSN and |
| many reasons why doing it might be needed. | | | | information will be displayed instantly. A free social |
| A very common reason for making these SSN | | | | security number search will yield details such as a |
| lookups is to verify the identity of a job applicant. If | | | | person's snail mail and email addresses as well as his |
| you're a manager of a certain company and you're | | | | phone number, while a paid one will give more in-depth |
| looking to hire new staff, you would naturally want to | | | | information. The fee is necessary as an SSN search |
| know about the people whom you are considering to | | | | company will need to recoup the cost of maintaining a |
| be part of it. Anyone can claim things on his CV but | | | | large database of people's information from which |
| unless the manager has a way of verifying the truth | | | | details on the person you're trying to search on will be |
| behind such CV, the risks are simply too high to take. | | | | sourced. |
| It's not surprising to hear about identity theft these | | | | Other good reasons for running an SSN look-up is for |
| days, especially with the proliferation of Internet hacking | | | | a landlord to look into the background of would-be |
| attacks and all other technologies that allow an | | | | tenants, loaners evaluating loan applicants' ability to pay, |
| unscrupulous individual to steal anyone's private | | | | and even mothers looking for nannies for their children. |
| information and use it as his own. It would be a terrible | | | | These days, it's just impossible and very unwise to |
| surprise to find that an innocent-looking guy with an | | | | believe a person for what he says the first time you |
| innocent-looking CV actually turns out to be a fugitive. | | | | meet. Of course, there will be many exceptions to this, |
| This is just one of the more serious scenarios that | | | | but when you're dealing with something as sensitive as |
| could happen, which means anyone in the office | | | | your family's or business' welfare and safety, it is only |
| tasked to hire new members to the team cannot | | | | natural for you to verify things so as not to |
| afford not to run an SSN search on job candidates. | | | | compromise anybody's safety. |