AMERICANALMANAC (Jonah Adams) - New background-check tool lets online daters vet matches for scams, criminal records, and secret spouses
A public-records company has launched a free website called "Stud or Dud" that lets singles run background checks on potential dates, a move aimed squarely at the growing epidemic of romance fraud draining Americans of millions. PeopleFinders, a firm with more than two decades in the public-records business, rolled out the platform last week. The […] The post New background-check tool lets online daters vet matches for scams, criminal records, and secret spouses appeared first on American Almanac .
A public-records company has launched a free website called "Stud or Dud" that lets singles run background checks on potential dates, a move aimed squarely at the growing epidemic of romance fraud draining Americans of millions. PeopleFinders, a firm with more than two decades in the public-records business, rolled out the platform last week. The site pulls from publicly available records, address histories, bankruptcy filings, and other data points, and packages them with color-coded red and green flags and what the company calls "compatibility readouts." The pitch is simple: find out whether the person on the other end of a dating app is who they claim to be before you ever meet them in person. CEO Amber Higgins told the New York Post …Open