On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:15:36 GMT, Benji Z-Man >
wrote:
>On 19/04/10 09:35, Omelet wrote:
>> In >,
>> Benji > wrote:
>>
>>> On 19/04/10 09:27, Omelet wrote:
>>>> In >,
>>>> Benji > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 19/04/10 08:19, skeeter wrote:
>>>>>> WTF? another "dog the bounty hunter" wannabe.
>>>>>
>>>>> Nothing doing. I'm a skip tracer - worlds of difference, you should
>>>>> learn to get out more and find that.
>>>>
>>>> Skip Tracer? That can be a dangerous job.
>>>> I hope you have beanbag rounds!
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skiptrace
>>
>> I did not need to google it, but I did anyway.
>> What type of skiptracing do you do? I would think that bail bonds would
>> be the most dangerous, but there is more than one venue.
>
>I do work for the courts oftentimes, sometimes credit agencies, and here
>in Oz there's no actual "bond enforcement" agencies.
>
>As for the work, it's more an internet, papers, and various other
>avenues thing. Like how most people have a facebook or myspace page,
>that says where they are. Most times I can then contact them - through
>their facebook or myspace address, and tell them bluntly.
>
>"Sir/Ma'am,
>
>My apologies for the topic of this conversation, but it seems that there
>are persons interested in your whereabouts due to unfinished business
>you may not have remembered. Please contact me at XXXX XXXX or by fax at
>XXXX XXXX as soon as possible so that we can assist you to clear this
>matter up.
>
>Thank you for your time
>
>< Legal blurb >"
>
>Then if they don't do anything about it, or if they have no public
>profile, it's usually also simple enough to go through the tedious tasks
>of checking pretty much every source of public information a person can
>have. Birth records, voting enrollments, public-listed residency &
>tenancy records, obituaries (ended up chasing one "skip" who no-one had
>checked was still alive; he'd died two weeks prior to the collections
>guy coming around to collect), court records (a number of times the cops
>haven't reported or otherwise checked that they have someone wanted in a
>jail elsewhere), etc, etc, etc.
>
>I also tend to find it worthwhile to check the listed home address +
>work address of the skip - sometimes a boss will just say that their
>employer isn't there to save trouble from coming on premises. Sometimes
>people just won't answer the door if someone arrives unannounced.
>Surveillance comes into play there.
>
>And of course sometimes the collections agent/bailiff/bond enforcer
>won't do more than a general knock-on-the-door; been a few times that
>I've found that the "skip" is in the trailer or flat out in the back
>yard, or happened to be out that day, or is house-sitting or helping
>care for someone sick/injured somewhere else.
>
>Depending on the trace I'm doing, sometimes there's private or
>government records I can access as well that'll give me more
>information, regardless on if it's useful or not. It's a lot less
>"bounty hunter" and a lot more "human records-search engine". Still
>makes for an interesting conversations piece with the in-laws, and while
>the work itself is boring as hell sometimes, it has it's moments =P
>
>As for beanbag rounds, my personal preference is a fairly simple .38
>revolver with low powder rounds - Aussieland has heavy-enough gun
>control laws to make pulling it out overkill - in a land where petty
>thugs will at worst have a knife or just a tough-guy mentality.
>
>Moving to the states soon, though. If so, my preference will probably
>change to a Cz-75 with custom stock and firing pin... but that's really,
>really off topic by a long shot. Pardon the pun.
I did skip tracing, but it was cold calling. Talk to the neighbours,
friends, family face to face, you get to know who's lying to you.
My trace record was 80% which was good, but I took a great number of
chances, when you cold call it's part an parcel with the job.
I did this for 10 years, nine years and eleven months too long.