New Generation Phone Lookup Website Offers a Free All-In-One Service

Fort Lauderdale, FL (PRWEB) May 22, 2010

PhoneLookup.com (http://www.phonelookup.com) today announced the launch of a free service for consumers and administrative agencies looking to investigate nuisance calls or track down the owners of telephone numbers.

Traditionally, websites have offered separate services focusing either on address lookups or offering reverse phone lookups. This made it expensive and time-consuming to find details for phone numbers or people. Once the name and address was given for the number, users would then have to go to a traditional directory to cross-reference the information. Or to a people finder service to search by name.

Asked to comment on the new service, Randy Banks from PhoneLookup.com said:

” It is not just consumers who use the service. There are many situations where the need arises for a quick search to find out details about a person. When similar services were first launched they were focused on one just one kind of search. What we have done at PhoneLookup.com is to respond to consumer demand for an all-in-one search. Using the latest search technology we have built a fast, intuitive website that can be used to search by number, name or address in seconds. “

Despite the fact that consumers have more tools and legislation at their disposal, nuisance calls continue to be a major problem. The rise in the use of social networks has also seen thousands of people giving out personal information to other users, without realising how many people it is visible to. While these websites do their best to warn customers that they should never give out personal details, it is surprising just how many individuals are prepared to give away their information. As stated by Randy Banks

“The integration of technology has made information accessible to everyone, but the means of getting that information has not been as easy as it should have been. It seems obvious that if you are doing a search for a phone number, you should also be able to search for addresses or by name on the same site. Why should people pay for the information when they can get it for free at PhoneLookup.com “

There is also a positive use for this service. People are able to get in touch with friends and family they may have lost touch with years ago. People now move more frequently, change email addresses or change names when they get married. It can be difficult to track them down as not everyone is listed in the phone directories or uses a social network. Having just one piece of the puzzle – a name, address or phone number – you are able to get the rest of the necessary information to find that person.

If you’d like more information about the Phone Lookup service, please email Randy Banks at webmaster(at)phonelookup(dot)com

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Investigative Journalist Launches Site Comparing Skip Tracing, Reverse Lookup Data Companies

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) June 12, 2006

Professional researcher and occasional scam-victim Michael Fitzpatrick has done the web-searching community an enormous favor by launching a blog devoted to reporting his experiences with on-line research and skip tracing companies. After weeks of whispering, the reverse lookup compare and contrast blog hosted by Blog-City.com was launched on Friday.

Fitzpatrick, who has made a career out of locating people and information for his journalistic endeavors, was inspired to launch the project after noticing a surge in advertising by so-called skip tracing companies since February.

“The thing is, these are services, not products. And although the phone number and address searches are fairly popular, it is still a niche market, albeit a flooded one. People who need information are generally new at this and have no idea what is available, who can obtain it, and which are scams run by charlatans pretending to offer something of investigative value,” he states.

People searching for phone number reverse lookup information, for example, are likely to choose the lowest priced service, everything else appearing equal. ”

By Fitzpatrick’s estimation, six out of ten sites flooding the cost-per-click ad market are slickly worded cons promising customers access to non-existent data. While private investigation is a regulated field, online data brokers have no governing body, no association and no oversight.

“The actions of these companies really give licensed investigators a bad name. You have actual PIs suddenly unable to drum up business because the scam artists are everywhere. Not only do they advertise like mad, but after they’ve finished fleecing some unsuspecting consumer, that person is not likely to trust a real investigator to obtain the results.”

In the coming days and weeks, Fitzpatrick will be adding reviews of actual experiences with online vendors of location services such as reverse lookup, business search, phone number, and directory tracing vendors. He plans to have a comparison of the most popular database and manual search companies compiled by July 1st and posted on the blog ReverseLookupServices.

In the meantime, consumers needing investigative help, he advises, need to find a lookup or skip tracing company that is going to charge you for the actual search. The conmen to steer clear of are those offering database inquiries and do-it-yourself software downloads.

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The Message is the Medium as SMS Comes of Age: World’s first global SMS Texting, Premium Rate and Mobile Alerts Services Directory Launched.

(PRWEB) January 11, 2005

It may hit you when you check your flight departure status as you dash to the airport or when you transfer cash between your bank accounts; as you translate between arabic and english at a meeting or check the winning lottery number; these and many other services no longer require an office visit, computer or even a phone call, thanks to the phenomenal growth in SMS text messaging services.

No longer confined to frivolous flirting and whimsical downloads, SMS Texting has evolved into an essential means of communication, not just between individuals but also enterprises and their customers.

Thumbtips Digits Directory is a new, free service from http://www.thumbtips.com (The Mobile Directory) offering the missing link for the burgeoning Commercial SMS Text , Text Alerts and Premium Rate Markets. The Directory presents both wireless Consumers and Enterprises with one central place where their needs coincide. As part of its’ bid to be the number 1 resource for SMS texters the Directory even incorporates a handy txt dictionary for on-the-go reference.

Service Providers can list service details and access numbers and Consumers can quickly find that information in a few steps by using their cellphone’s GPRS/WAP facility, or even by SMS query. This interaction represents the best defined marketplace yet for the newest E-Commerce and Information Channel.

The mobile phone is at once the most ubiquitous and the most personalized communication Channel available today and SMS messaging is growing beyond personal exchanges into a Major Channel for marketing, interaction and customer relationship management.

As sms/text services expand, using either shortcodes or premium rate lines, it is increasingly obvious that a directory (similar to White/Yellow pages) and/or search capability (similar to Google) dedicated to such services is necessary. More and more traditional businesses are offering sms as part of their communication portfolio, adding diversity to the saturated phone customisation offerings.

But there is a gap in the Provider to Consumer interface that limits service visibility and results in high promotional expenses and missed user opportunities.

To date, marketers of all sms services have had to rely on media ads, direct marketing or websites to promote them. There was no comprehensive channel of promotion for, or access to, such services (available at point of use: the cellular phone) – until now.

There are far more mobile users than computer users and by definition, as a mobile service, sms/text has to be available to hand anytime, anywhere. Additionally, most sms services require a menu of keywords for different options. What is needed is a directory, searchable by location, service type, name, shortcode/number or company that is accessible from any mobile. If the directory also supplies details of how to use the service (text codes etc) and even codes for particular content, then this adds even more value.

On the Provider side, the benefit of being offered as a response to a user search at the time of need, as opposed to expensive mass promotion and dependency on impulse, is obvious. The branding of the directory service means that providers can now say ‘find us on Thumbtips Digits Directory’ (for example) in their marketing or ad copy, which will reassure consumers that they can access the service anytime and anywhere, without needing to make a note of details. As the Thumbtips Digits Directory brand is built, consumer reliance on it will increase.

Within the Digits Directory, Providers are allocated their own area to upload details of the services they offer and all relevant information, such as network availability, pricing, instructions for use, registration and contact facilities. This is a free facility and entirely at the disposal of the Provider to promote all their services subject to terms of use. Providers are also free to promote their listing in the Directory in their media copy and advertisements.

Mr Errol O’Meally, CEO of UK based Sunset Media Limited which operates the Thumbtips Digits Directory states, “With over 40,000 SMS text and Premium Rate services in the UK alone, many more in Europe and Asia and strong growth in the US, we firmly believe that the Mobile Phone represents the ultimate interface to all the services available on the Internet. From Personal Banking, through News, Leisure activities and diverse content the Mobile Channel is increasingly being used by Enterprises. We offer a comprehensive means of locating and using those services which represents a win/win situation for both Consumers and Enterprises. No longer will Service Providers have to rely solely on expensive marketing to publicise services and no longer will Consumers have to jot down instructions or access numbers. Thumbtips Digits Directory is the SMS Services equivalent of Directory Assistance, right there where you need it, instantly available and free. Consumers can conveniently save instructions to their phones for repeated use and Providers can offer up to date details at a central point and even codes for specific content. We are a small company but we think this is a big idea whose utility to all parties is obvious.”

Thumbtips Digits Directory is a Global Directory which means Providers and Consumers from any Country are free to use it. Services on the Directory are categorized within Geographical regions and Service Type and can be accessed either by number, title, provider name or search terms.

Consumers can access the Thumbtips Digits Directory service on their mobiles at http://www.thumbtips.com using GPRS or WAP (SMS access coming soon!).

Providers are invited to register and edit their services by PC at http://www.digitsdirectory.com.

Enquiries can be directed to:

digits@thumbtips.com

or

admin@digitsdirectory.com.

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Investigative Journalist Launches Site Comparing Skip Tracing, Reverse Lookup Data Companies

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) June 12, 2006

Professional researcher and occasional scam-victim Michael Fitzpatrick has done the web-searching community an enormous favor by launching a blog devoted to reporting his experiences with on-line research and skip tracing companies. After weeks of whispering, the reverse lookup compare and contrast blog hosted by Blog-City.com was launched on Friday.

Fitzpatrick, who has made a career out of locating people and information for his journalistic endeavors, was inspired to launch the project after noticing a surge in advertising by so-called skip tracing companies since February.

“The thing is, these are services, not products. And although the phone number and address searches are fairly popular, it is still a niche market, albeit a flooded one. People who need information are generally new at this and have no idea what is available, who can obtain it, and which are scams run by charlatans pretending to offer something of investigative value,” he states.

People searching for phone number reverse lookup information, for example, are likely to choose the lowest priced service, everything else appearing equal. ”

By Fitzpatrick’s estimation, six out of ten sites flooding the cost-per-click ad market are slickly worded cons promising customers access to non-existent data. While private investigation is a regulated field, online data brokers have no governing body, no association and no oversight.

“The actions of these companies really give licensed investigators a bad name. You have actual PIs suddenly unable to drum up business because the scam artists are everywhere. Not only do they advertise like mad, but after they’ve finished fleecing some unsuspecting consumer, that person is not likely to trust a real investigator to obtain the results.”

In the coming days and weeks, Fitzpatrick will be adding reviews of actual experiences with online vendors of location services such as reverse lookup, business search, phone number, and directory tracing vendors. He plans to have a comparison of the most popular database and manual search companies compiled by July 1st and posted on the blog ReverseLookupServices.

In the meantime, consumers needing investigative help, he advises, need to find a lookup or skip tracing company that is going to charge you for the actual search. The conmen to steer clear of are those offering database inquiries and do-it-yourself software downloads.

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Last Day for Byrne JAG Grant Public Notification is April 18th

Motorola APX Radio

Portland, OR (Vocus) April 3, 2009

In order to submit the Byrne JAG local award application by the deadline of May 18, 2008, applicants must provide an opportunity for the public to comment on their Recovery JAG plan 30 days prior to submission. That makes April 18th the last day for public notification which may include website and newspaper postings, city council, and county board hearings open to the public. Applicants must also make the grant application available for review by the governing body 30 days prior to submission.

When President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, it included almost $ 2 Billion in additional funding for resources for State and Local law enforcement. The Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Grant (JAG) is an annual grant and something most agencies are already taking advantage of. However, this year, the Byrne JAG program is a one-time infusion of stimulus funds that local law enforcement can use to support a wide range of programs.

Local and State Allocation Lists

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/recoveryJAG/recoveryallocations.html

Even if money has been allocated to a specific jurisdiction you still must apply for the funds.

Local Application and Instructions

http://www.ojp.gov/BJA/recoveryJAG/JAGrecoveryLocal.pdf

For assistance with the requirements of this solicitation, contact: BJA toll-free at 1-866-268-0079 or email jagrecovery@usdoj.gov. The email account will be checked hourly.

Motorola solutions can provide the basis for many grant proposals.

Interoperability solutions for every day use and especially during emergency situations. Motorola leads the industry in successfully deploying interoperable networks that span states, connect counties and municipalities and agencies within a municipality.

Secure, Wireless Broadband Networks enable mobile applications, even while driving at highway speed. Background checks, license plate look-ups and even email can now be done in the vehicle, improving officer safety and efficiency.

Mobile Computing Applications and Devices enable improved revenue generation and increase personnel productivity, often in less than 12 months.

Upgrade existing systems to include GPS capabilities to better track personnel and their proximity to an incident’s location.

Act Now!

Deadlines are approaching. Submit your application now in order to take advantage of these newly released funds. Even if money has been allocated to a specific jurisdiction you must still apply. Contact Day Wireless Systems for more details.

Day Wireless Systems is composed of 28 locations throughout the West and 175 in technical staff. Since 1969, Day Wireless Systems has been providing professional wireless services for demanding commercial, government, and mission critical public safety systems, and is the largest Motorola Premier Service Partner and Manufacturer’s Representative in the USA.

For more information, please visit http://www.daywireless.com

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Are you picking a call from an unidentified number on your mobile phone or home phone? Did the day-to-day phone bill come in and there are phone calls made to a number that is unknown? Researching can provide you with results to these varieties of inquiries – and more – with a Reverse Phone Lookup.

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Why people reverse check? A Reverse Phone Lookup permits you to put in a wireless number, whether landline or cell, and then leaves you with information about the individual whose number it is. Info such as the individual?s name and location will be supplied to you immediately. If you want more outstanding info such as address history, house records on that person, you can get it on this website. Now that you understand what this kind of reverse number lookup is, you might be inquiring to know if they are as real as they appear. In a word, yes.

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Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore and Taiwan Have Been Digitized with Universal Addresses

(PRWEB) October 17, 2005

October 17, 2005 – Toronto, Canada. NAC Geographic Products Inc. has announced that Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore and Taiwan have been added to the countries and areas digitized with Universal Addresses and Natural Area Codes (http://www.nacgeo.com/nacsite/), and made the number of the Universal Address digitized countries and areas to 24: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom, and United States thanks to the support of Microsoft which provides comprehensive geographic data to NAC Geographic Products Inc.

Now more than one billion people from these countries and areas can immediately get their Universal Addresses on Universal Address Lookup Service (http://www.travelgis.com/geocode/) and NAC Real-Time Geocoding Service for web applications (http://www.nacgeo.com/geocode.asp), and access the highly efficient and reliable Universal Address powered cross-country cross-language turn-by-turn driving directions service on TravelGIS Driving Directions Service (http://www.travelgis.com/directions/) from their desktop computers.

They can also use any kind of wireless devices to get turn-by-turn driving directions, maps and location based business searches in North America, Europe, Brazil and Australia powered by Universal Addresses on Mobile Location Based Services Network (http://mlbs.net/), and can even get almost all needed location based services on their GPS cellphones through Locamagic (http://locamagic.biz/help/) – a new wireless location services application.

“The addition of these countries and areas has made a great contribution to the wide adoption of the Universal Address System in the world,” said Dr. Xinhang Shen, President of NAC Geographic Products Inc., “because Hong Kong and Taiwan are using Chinese characters in their addresses that are very time-consuming for local people and almost impossible for foreigners to input into computers and navigation devices, and also can’t be uniquely translated into any other languages. This language problem is a serous barrier for wide use of navigating and other location services in these areas. The introduction of the Universal Address System will solve this problem, and make all location based services highly efficient, consumer-friendly and geographically complete.”

Using Universal Addresses to specify locations instead of traditional addresses on location based services can reduce 80% of input characters, avoid difficulties in inputting addresses with foreign characters, eliminate errors from address databases and extend location based services to all locations no matter whether there are addresses or not. The 80% of reduction of input is significant in using cellphones, PDAs, and portable navigation systems with a small key pad and a small screen to access location based services. The short Universal Addresses can make the entire input interface of a driving directions service fit on one single screen of a small cellphone as shown by Locamagic – a pioneer wireless location based services suite providing address management, locating, turn-by-turn driving directions, real-time navigating instructions, nearby business/amenity searching, cellphone location tracking and friends locations monitoring in more than 30 countries, with which you can also immediately know the Universal Address of any location you are standing at in the world.

A Universal Address is very short and can be easily included as part of an address on any business card and listed on yellow pages, tourbooks and travel information websites that will make Universal Addresses available to all travelers. With Universal Addresses, travelers can efficiently and reliably use electronic navigating devices to quickly find their destinations. They can also directly figure out the distance and relative direction between any two Universal Addresses because Universal Addresses are Universal Map Grid coordinates with fixed cell sizes, and pinpoint any Universal Address on any map with Universal Map Grids.

Since Universal Addresses exist everywhere, people can use them not only for locations with addresses but also for locations without addresses: bridges, park gates, BBQ tables, park benches, wells, trees, tombstones, street lights, sewage exits, fire hydrants, cable connectors, gas meters, electric wire poles, camping sites, fishing spots, accident locations, etc. As Universal Address enhanced GPS cellphones and GPS watches are getting more popular, people will easily use the Universal Address to answer the question accurately: “Where are you?” without the help of any local landmarks.

The Universal Address System brings enormous benefits to the world. It has unified all addresses, geographic coordinates, area codes, postal codes, map grids, and property identifiers of the entire world. Now each of these codes can be represented by a single efficient Universal Address that connects the information from all kinds of location based services, maps, GPS receivers, navigation systems, courier and postal services, travel information systems, yellow pages, business directories, geographic information systems, as well as all other location related products and services, and makes them highly efficient, reliable and geographically complete.

Therefore, a new era for using accurate locations in all human activities is starting in the whole world, and people will use accurate locations as often as accurate time.

About NAC Geographic Products Inc.

NAC Geographic Products Inc. is a leading company in geographic information technologies. In addition to the revolutionary NAC Technology, the company has a variety of software products: WEBGIS, NACMAP, NACDRAW, etc and provides various location based services: NAC Real-Time Geocoding Service, NAC Real-Time Reverse-Geocoding Service, NAC Real-Time Mapping Service, NAC Real-Time Driving Directions Service, NAC Real-Time Nearby Business Searching Service, NAC Real-Time Traffic Information Service for web applications, and MLBS.NET, TravelGIS.com, Locamagic for consumers.

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by Nils Geylen

Finding a reverse lookup phone number is one of the most effective ways to spot and identify that it was only right that you called. In addition, you can use a cell phone lookup to find some of these mysterious numbers on the telephone bill. Whatever may be the reason, a reverse lookup service phone number can certainly help you in your job all cell phone detective.

However, there are many online services that promise free search cell phone numbers, but these services Advertise wrong. There’s nothing like free reverse lookup cell phone number on the internet time. Fortunately, there are several companies, the exact number reverse search results pages, but there is a catch, they low for a fee. If you find out about who is seriously behind this unknown number, then you will soon realize that their small fee is very small compared to all the information you can find a phone number. Would not it be worth a small fee to finally know who is the devil on the other line?

You may be wondering why he was on a reverse lookup service pay phone numbers on your side, and the answer is very simple, in which they invest private information that can be accessed only by the government. This information would otherwise be accessed without these special services. The beauty of these services is that when you become a member, you’ll investigate the situation and detailed information that currently found hidden behind this mysterious figure.

Some services have several options for mounting. In addition to paying only for a search, you can also attach it to another level and have access to the research, as you want. If you see an unfamiliar number on your phone, then plug it into the reverse lookup service number and the detailed results can be found as often as you want. In relation to a reverse lookup by phone number, there are only 4 companies that actually make the claim, what they do. You can find all the tests the first 4 cell phone company reverse lookup on the website review below.

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Trying to find out who was on the other end of an unknown cell phone call?

When looking to do a reverse cell phone lookup, at some point (if you don’t know this already) you are going to be faced with the reality that the only sure method for discovering a mobile caller’s identifying information is to pay a reverse phone directory for this information.

Even though you may find hundreds of sites on the Internet which offer free reports in response to this sort of inquiry, invariably you are going to find that the only way to come up with a caller’s name, address, and other identifying information is to part ways with some money. 

This is the main stumbling block for easily coming up with accurate information.

Don’t be fooled by websites that promise a “free report” when it comes to identifying a wireless number.  No website that offers to provide a name, current address, past addresses, wireless carrier, family names, and so on without also charging a fee could do so without losing money on every single report they distribute.

Why, you may ask? 

Because any reverse phone directory that is able to provide the most recent and accurate information behind a mobile number can only do so by procuring this data from the originating wireless service provider.  And these wireless service providers do not release this data without first being financially compensated. 

So the reverse phone directories are obligated to pass a fee on to customers searching for an identifying report in connection with a mobile number.  It really is no more complicated than that.  Mobile numbers are privately owned by the respective wireless service providers that issue and continue to service them.

What information can you expect to find for free?

At best, the most revealing information you can find out about a mobile number (without paying a fee) is the location from which the wireless number was initially issued and the wireless provider’s name (i.e. Sprint, T-Mobile or Verizon). 

So if a website promises a “free report” in connection with a wireless number you want to identify, this is all you should expect to discover.  To find out what you are really after – namely the caller’s name and address – the directory will offer a more complete or “full” report that reveals precisely the type of information you may have thought was free, based on the promises that led you to the site to begin with. 

At that point, do you really want to pay your money to a website for information you originally thought would be free?  I know I wouldn’t, and haven’t.  I’d much prefer to work with a company that lets me know – from the beginning – that this information is not free and why.  So if I have need to identify a phone number that I cannot find in a free phone directory, I suck it up and take my search to a fee-based reverse phone directory.

What to look for in a good reverse mobile phone directory

Any good directory is going to first allow you to search its database to make sure it contains the number you are searching.  If it does, you should be notified of the location from which the number was originally issued and the name of the caller’s wireless service provider. 

Here is where have to decide what purchase option to select.  Most directories will offer you the option to simply purchase a report for one single search; or you can choose to sign up to the directory.  The main benefit of signing up for what is either termed a “subscription” or “membership” is typically going to be the ability to run unlimited people searches and also the ability to perform unlimited searches on landline and business numbers for as long as the subscription or membership is in good standing.

Whether a continued membership or subscription is right for you is going to depend on the price, how long the membership lasts, what kind of information you can access, and how often you feel you will make use of such a resource.

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Investigative Journalist Launches Site Comparing Skip Tracing, Reverse Lookup Data Companies

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) June 12, 2006

Professional researcher and occasional scam-victim Michael Fitzpatrick has done the web-searching community an enormous favor by launching a blog devoted to reporting his experiences with on-line research and skip tracing companies. After weeks of whispering, the reverse lookup compare and contrast blog hosted by Blog-City.com was launched on Friday.

Fitzpatrick, who has made a career out of locating people and information for his journalistic endeavors, was inspired to launch the project after noticing a surge in advertising by so-called skip tracing companies since February.

“The thing is, these are services, not products. And although the phone number and address searches are fairly popular, it is still a niche market, albeit a flooded one. People who need information are generally new at this and have no idea what is available, who can obtain it, and which are scams run by charlatans pretending to offer something of investigative value,” he states.

People searching for phone number reverse lookup information, for example, are likely to choose the lowest priced service, everything else appearing equal. ”

By Fitzpatrick’s estimation, six out of ten sites flooding the cost-per-click ad market are slickly worded cons promising customers access to non-existent data. While private investigation is a regulated field, online data brokers have no governing body, no association and no oversight.

“The actions of these companies really give licensed investigators a bad name. You have actual PIs suddenly unable to drum up business because the scam artists are everywhere. Not only do they advertise like mad, but after they’ve finished fleecing some unsuspecting consumer, that person is not likely to trust a real investigator to obtain the results.”

In the coming days and weeks, Fitzpatrick will be adding reviews of actual experiences with online vendors of location services such as reverse lookup, business search, phone number, and directory tracing vendors. He plans to have a comparison of the most popular database and manual search companies compiled by July 1st and posted on the blog ReverseLookupServices.

In the meantime, consumers needing investigative help, he advises, need to find a lookup or skip tracing company that is going to charge you for the actual search. The conmen to steer clear of are those offering database inquiries and do-it-yourself software downloads.

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