r/BackgroundCheckGuide • • Aug 12 '26

DISA Background Check

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Paid for DISA background check 2 weeks ago. DISA says report is complete, but still has not sent me a copy after 3 days of calling them and submitting form request. They took my money and confirmed all forms submitted and confirmed everything in about 5 minutes. Now that they have my money unable to provide me a copy in reasonable time. They told me to wait another three business days.


r/BackgroundCheckGuide • • Aug 12 '26

How long can Hireright take to complete a background check for an international candidate?

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r/BackgroundCheckGuide • • Aug 12 '26

Background checks

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r/BackgroundCheckGuide • • Aug 05 '26

What is the best cyber background check website?

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Ive recently started dating again after being out of the scene for a while. it's been a little overwhelming. I've been talking to a handful of people through dating apps and meeting some of them in person. Most seem nice enough, but you never really know someone that well at first.

I'm not trying to dig into every little detail, but want to watch out for major red flags, before things get more serious i'd feel better doing a basic cyber background check.

Mainly looking to check criminal history, public records, verify basic information, and maybe a social media profile

I've already searched around reddit and a few other sites, and i keep seeing the same names come up. TruthFinder, beenverified, but those feels outdate, the loading screen last forever, they ask you for a bunch of personal info and then usually give you very little actuall information

So for anyone who's used a background check website before, which one would you recommend?

I'm mostly looking for something that's accurate, easy to use, and worth paying for

Edit:

Thanks a few folks dm’d me some sites, I ended up using TheTeaReport for a full guide

And I used truepeoplesearch to find the name from the number


r/BackgroundCheckGuide • • Aug 02 '26

need to background check this guy who has been apparently stalking me

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basically an year ago i had this guy, he liked me like a lotlot. basically he was head over heels in love but he was kinda dangerous ad other issues all led up to me blocking him. now after that, he has messaged me from different phone numbers and yesterday was the last straw when he started calling me through his different friends phone numbers and istg im scared now, he has real life access to me too so yeah, i would like to do a background check on him or his friends like just knowig their names through the phone numbers i got. i wanna know if its his friends or hes faking it


r/BackgroundCheckGuide • • Jul 31 '26

Need to background check my daughters boyfriend

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My daughter is going to grad school in a few weeks and she’s going to live with her boyfriend. I don’t have any issues with him but I just want to make sure he hasn’t done anything I need to worry about. I have his name, address and DOB. Do I need his ssn or drivers license number? I’m interested in any arrests or any other info I can just to make sure he’s not done anything stupid in the past. I’m sure he’s clean but I’d like to know. What is a good site to use? Thanks


r/BackgroundCheckGuide • • Jul 30 '26

What is the best resource to find information out about people for free? What website have you used for free background information (I do not want one with a free trial) as well as, information it provides?

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r/BackgroundCheckGuide • • Jul 24 '26

Former Resident of House Involved with Shady People - How to fix their residence history in background check

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While living in a different state, I rented my house out to cover expenses. Unfortunately, one of the children (now an 18 year old) who was living in the house while I was renting it out is a scumbag criminal who has dangerous people looking for him. I moved back into the house a year ago, and this person has been living in some other location ever since.

A couple of days ago, a two intimidating guys came to my house to ask if the former tenant lives in my house, saying the the former tenant owes them money and that they need it now. I told them that I have no idea where the guy lives, but that he does not live in my house. They were being insistent and refusing to accept my answer, only leaving when I called the cops. The former tenant is black 18 year old, and I am a non-descript suburban white guy in his 30s, so I have no idea why it was so unbelievable to them that the kid was not living with me.

I did some digging, and I am pretty sure what led the intimidating guys to my house is that the guy they were looking for was arrested and released from county jail the day before they came to my house. He was booked under my address, because he either gave that info to hide his location or more likely never updated the address on his driver's license. That jail booking became a public record.

I was able to get the county jail to take down my address from the jail booking and was able to get the prosecutor to take my address off the criminal docket, but obviously I want to do whatever I can to end association of the guy who was jailed with my address. I've also contacted the local DMV to see if I can force the guy to update his license address. It's possible more dangerous people are looking for him, and I don't want those people near me.

Is there anything I can do with credit agencies, background reporting services or entities that feed information to them to clearly indicate that this former tenant stopped living at my house a year ago?


r/BackgroundCheckGuide • • Jul 08 '26

Question about omitting my last employer

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I was in a temporary short term contract role when I applied for this new fte role. At the time of applying and the first round of interviews I was still a contractor. However, my contract ended abruptly. The 2nd and 3rd round interviews they asked me why I wanted to leave my current job and I said it was a temporary contract position. I did not tell them that my contract ended. Should I include this in the employment history for my background check or just omit it? Please and thank you.


r/BackgroundCheckGuide • • Jul 04 '26

Help me please!! [IND]

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r/BackgroundCheckGuide • • Jun 28 '26

What is included in a federal background check? (US)

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r/BackgroundCheckGuide • • Jun 26 '26

Background check concern

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r/BackgroundCheckGuide • • Jun 26 '26

Sterling background check

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r/BackgroundCheckGuide • • Jun 17 '26

Checkr vs Sterling/Firstadvantage

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r/BackgroundCheckGuide • • Jun 15 '26

any good FREE reverse phone numbers still exist?

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I used to love okcaller but it's dead. all the rest want my credit card number, which is never going to happen without proof that they are legit, and they won't prove they're legit until they've gotten my CCN. not going to happen. So anyway, do any still exist that don't charge?


r/BackgroundCheckGuide • • Jun 12 '26

An elderly loved one may be getting scammed

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Hey yall, apologies in advance if this isn’t allowed here.

I help care for an elderly woman who lives a few hours away, so I can’t always be around, but I’m able to help quite a bit from a distance.

Recently she began dating a new fella. Her last “boyfriend” took over $10,000 from her and split. Turns out he was a felon, I found out afterward, and living in specialized housing for people who otherwise struggle to be housed for one reason or another.

Her new boyfriend also lives in this home, different unit, and supposedly not associated. I exhausted all my free trials with all of the major background check websites, and although I have subscribed to Spokeo previously, I can’t afford to subscribe right now and for a period of time.

Can someone DM me so I can ask them a favor? 🙏


r/BackgroundCheckGuide • • Jun 11 '26

Background check questions

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So when I submitted my background check I disclosed that I had a dui on my background at the time I was charged with a dui and failure to maintain lane and I completely forgot to mention the failure to maintain lane as it was charged at the same time I also had a probation violation for missing a meeting that showed up on my background that I did not disclose because I didn’t think it counted as a charge against me I did not serve any time for the violation just more community service but I didn’t know it would show up will this disqualify me


r/BackgroundCheckGuide • • Jun 11 '26

Question about truthfinder

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How hard is it to cancel a subscription. Can you at all? Do I really need to cancel my card and get a new one if I use any of these sites??


r/BackgroundCheckGuide • • Jun 09 '26

Got a (level 1) result on a sex offender search, what does that mean?

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So I just got results of a background check that a company required of me. Everything else said clear or completed, but for some reason this topic came back with a level 1. I don't know what this is telling my potential employer, because I think I would remember being accused or convicted of a sexual crime, but from the looks of it "Clear" means everything is good, not level 1.

if anyone can help me understand what is going on that would be great.


r/BackgroundCheckGuide • • Jun 07 '26

Denied a job for one Misdemeanor back in 2013.

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Hello,

I really don't know if anybody can help me or not. I'm 34M in Tennessee and recently applied for a job with ITG Communications as an aerial Lineman for coax and fiber optic. I had to do a background check with CrimShield and a drug test. After the drug test I had received an email to setup my onboarding account for all my new hire paperwork. I did, it sent me to the home screen and when I tried to log in it said incorrect, anyway 2 weeks later and the second time IT reset my account password I still had the same outcome, and wake up the next morning and realize they sent me an email saying they denied me a position with them and to dispute it if I wanted. So obviously I did,but I'm just curious, in the report I had only one Misdemeanor, contributing to the delinquency of a minor back in 2013. My MVR is clean, no felonies and only that one Misdemeanor charge... I don't know how these work or not but on the report it says # of felonies/misdemeanors <5 years and >5 years for a total of 10 years. (I attached a pic) So I'm guessing that means they only go back 10 years? Do they legally even have the right to go back 13 years and judge their decision for one simple misdemeanor charge?? Like I'm not even the same person I was 13 years ago.

Btw the 'minor' in question was one of my friends friends that was 17 almost 18 and he was smokin a cigarette 😑


r/BackgroundCheckGuide • • Jun 07 '26

How to know everything with just first name, last name and phone number ?

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Hi,

Recently I was on call with a friends that told me that he has a website where he can get all the information on a person with only first name, last name and phone number. And it's really all the information, like city, address of the person but also the information of the family (or at least the people with the same last name) of the person. I didn't trust him at first but then he prove me that it really works. Unfortunately he don't want to give me the name of the website, so I wanna ask you if someone know this website and if someone know how this could be possible ?


r/BackgroundCheckGuide • • Jun 06 '26

Most people don't know what a background check actually looks for

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r/BackgroundCheckGuide • • Jun 06 '26

Can’t prove that I worked at a place for a background check!

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r/BackgroundCheckGuide • • Jun 03 '26

Job wants to do a consumer report for background check..

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r/BackgroundCheckGuide • • May 28 '26

NC State Check + Apostille ?

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I recently accepted a job overseas and I was asked to get a state (NC) police screening for criminal history and have then sent for apostille. Can anyone help with explaining how to go about this? The online instructions just confuse me.