Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Background Checks

One of the strangest comments (which Akismet tells me is spam) I've seen reached a post about torture:
I wonder how many of these scam artists have received our money…. I become acquainted with Woman'sName on dating site and after some letter she start to tell about love I agree of the feelings. She wanted to visit me, she needed $1500. 00 for agent and airfare. I had doubts about money requests and found an investigation service that does background checks and provide a scam check service. That company is called DetectiveAgency( http: //www. detectiveagency. com, I am not advertising here, I just do a report about my experience. It cost me about $19, and it was much less than I might have lost in other case. I really enjoy this service. I saw that now they do some free service. Maybe it relly can help somebody like me. Buy. But as to me, I will pay for a background check before I ever send any money. Tom

I've cut out the agency's name because I'm not advertising it either. :)
I did rather enjoy reading the comment though -- it reminded me of a friend who is a non-native speaker of English. And it doesn't seem like a bad idea i.e. doing a background check. I first thought of it when a lady -- an actress though I can't remember her name -- said that she would do one to check the history of potential partners on Oprah. It made sense to me then and it still does. If not anything else, you wouldn't have to deal with suddenly discovering that the oh-so-perfect chap you're interested in has two wives, a conviction for culpable homicide and no job.
That could be a bit of an exaggeration but in today's world, who knows? Sometime ago, for example, a friend of mine got married to a chap whom she knew next to nothing about and whom she didn't check up on at all. Her marriage, while it lasted, was a disaster.

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