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- From: davet@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (Dave Tutelman)
- Subject: Re: How does a PI locate somebody?
- Organization: AT&T Bell Labs - Lincroft, NJ
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 13:30:35 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.133035.13296@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
- References: <2JAN199307371121@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- In article <2JAN199307371121@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov> packer@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer) writes:
- >A friend tells me that she used the services of a private
- >investigator to locate a boyfriend from high school days (25
- >years ago), mainly out of curiosity as to what had become of
- >him. She paid the PI something around $150-$200 for this, as I
- >recall, contingent on success in the search.
- >
- >The PI was able to find the former flame within a day using his
- >databases, the nature of which he wouldn't disclose to her. He
- >did say that he had worked for the Federal government [once].
- >How did he do it? It would seem that he would have to have
- >access to some union of all American telephone directories.
-
- "Track down high school and college friends ..."
- The first words of the fine print, on page 12 of the "early winter 93" DAK
- catalogue.
-
- The product, the PhoneDisc CD-ROM, is a set of 2 CDs with 70 million USA
- phone numbers and addresses. They claim that's 80%-90% of all listed
- residences in the US.
-
- The price of $129 includes a third CD, with what amounts to a nationwide
- yellow pages.
-
- If that's available to you and me for such a small fee, maybe a professional
- has access to even better coverage. Or maybe, just maybe, YOU could start
- a business charging more than your cost for the disks for each commission.
- It might work, as long as you were REAL mysterious about your sources, and
- claimed you used to work for the government.....
-
- Dave
-