Instant Checkmate

Everything is spot on. There's zero errors in their reports! After talking with people and friends about the accuracy of the reports, everyone was impressed. They all loved InstantCheckMate.com as much as I do. Keep up the super sleuthing.

Very quick and easy to order. Great introductory offer. Very accurate information and fairly up to date. I would recommend this to a friend. Easy to navigate and great customer service. This is one of the best people search sites I have used.

It helped me find a ton of my lost friends and family members I would have never found on my own! LOVE IT.

I have used Checkmate for several years as part of my genealogy research. It has helped me connect with my relatives across the USA. The information is easy to read and the searches help a lot. I especially like the links to social media.

As a crime victim, I shouldn't have to give them more information than they've already made public. I called them. Explained I wanted my listing removed and would give them limited info. The extremely rude woman hung up on me. I've emailed repeatedly with information and request for removal and have gotten no response. Exploring legal action against these sites, brokers, etc. Why exactly are these companies allowed to not only unilaterally publish without consent, but make money off of publishing our personal and private information?

I've been a customer for several years. I HATE THE NEW INTERFACE! Nothing is showing anymore! Very bad design. I don't care about their timeline. I want to see their phone and locations. HORRIBLE! I will be investigating other services who are user friendly!

1st let me say that some info I found using your program broke my heart but it also allowed me to reach out to my brother and offer him some help and comfort. BUT AS GRATEFUL AS I AM - I AM STILL FURIOUS WITH YOUR COMPANY AND I WANT RESOLUTION. I just saw on my PayPal account that I signed up for your service and paid 34.78. Your advertisement said all was unlimited for this time period. Then I look and see 4 charges for 19.95. That is $80.00 I knew nothing about. Please explain your scheme and then refund the $80.00. Thanks so much and have a wonderful 4th!

I use the service to confirm mailing address and birthdate to send my clients birthday cards. Facebook tells me their birthday too, but not all have Facebook and it waits until too close to their birthday for me to get a card in the mail and to them on time.

Went ahead and risked it and paid $35 for month of full access. It's not full access at all. They constantly want you to upgrade. The basic info shown is nothing like a PI background check. They even want more for you to save the info in a PDF, I mean for real. Most the data was no good. Phone numbers did not reach the person, social info was broken links. I've seen a real background check and this was nothing like it.

Instant Checkmate is manipulative in its implementation if not design. After playing what is essentially a gamified cow clicker to generate a report you will be asked to pay a sizable fee, despite no indication of a paywall until you've already given the site considerable time engagement. Fear not, for if you don't take action for a few minutes the site will "congratulate" you with a $1 5-day membership.

The site recurrently reminds you that many people don't know its services exist. This could be construed as empowering its customers, or simply getting them to play IC's game the way IC wants. A background check service does real good in encouraging its users to handle its information discreetly, but the overwhelming message is not "be sensitive" but "satiate your curiosity." The writing gratuitously uses exclamatory shrieks, and the prospect and reality of customers becoming addicted to the thrill of personal information is unsettling on some levels.

If a criminal record comes up clean, the site will prompt the user to investigate additional data points with a premium subscription precisely at the moment the user scrolls to the Criminal Records section. Scrolling to the Location section and seeing a paid satellite map of someone's home residence may make you hallucinate the smell of rat poison. Instant Checkmate may be evil, but its information is organized in such a way to ensure its customers know what kind of usage of its services is illegal. It is also transparent about its (sometimes amusing) inaccuracies.

Try it - free trial. Really useful service for everyone who cares about knowing anything about people and for finding people you know a little bit about. If you're just worried about one person, you'll get the information you need for free so long as you cancel within the trial period. Yes, all of the information can be found on your own and usually for free, but that cost is dependent on you considering your time absolutely worthless. I seriously did find someone I've been looking for off and on since childhood (she had her Vietnamese first name on Facebook instead of the one I knew her in school by). It didn't tell me much of anything I didn't already know about most of the people I looked up except for a bunch of current phone numbers and a few addresses, but it has been invaluable to confirm information I'd already gained through regular Google research.

Their search feature is really good - if you know someone's first and last name and have a pretty good idea of where they live, or can do good enough research (like cities with a high median income, etc.), chances are this will find them. It won't tell you everything you need to take over someone's identity, but it'll help you find them, learn about them (especially if you're already familiar with their character), and often it'll help you contact them, too. Considering it's $30 for a full month and the most effort is spent in putting together a list of all the people you know, it's well worth it. Their cancellation process is 100% hassle free, no questions asked, maybe one special offer before you go. $2-3 to save PDF reports is essential, because once you cancel your account you no longer get access to your reports. They also have apps for Android and iPhone that are fantastic. Makes it really easy to creep on people even if you've only known them a few minutes.

One bad thing is how they associate people with criminal convictions. It seems like everyone and their mother has like 100 "criminal" convictions (most of these are traffic, which doesn't get its own category). All the false positives are "partial matches" - it's on the person's list of "likely" convictions so long as a couple points match, like First and Last name. Different birthdays often get included. In Los Angeles County, you can do a name search for a couple bucks that will give you all of the criminal and civil cases a person has been involved in, though, so this isn't a big issue. Another bad thing is the sexual predator thing - it's there on everyone's report and it's often the longest portion of the report. Totally unnecessary - should at least be a collapsed section.

Never bought a premium report, largely due to the whole "gambling" thing - you have no idea if what you're looking for will be included, only what category it may be in (civil conviction, etc.), and it may not even be applicable to them (based on the shoddy criminal conviction history) - but I can definitely see a use for that. Whether they actually have to pay that much extra for such information, though, even to average out their profits depending on the information sought, I have my doubts, but I can see how it would be worth it to someone needing specific information.

They have yet to remove my protected information, blocked me from Facebook although most other companies removed my information after I explained a crime victim and my life at risk publishing my information. They do not care if I get hurt or killed a veteran. They care about making money and that is all they care about despite the fact my address is protected under the law. Very sad.

I went on the website to determine if an acquaintance of mine was still alive. I found that he was but ever since that time I get frequent continuing requests to reopen the report. at the bottom of my computer screen. There is an X to delete them but no way to say enough!

I signed up for this thinking I could obtain the date of my long-ago divorce. After waiting a ridiculous amount of time to get the results, what I read did not include my current address, current employer or LinkedIn profile and most important, NO DIVORCE RECORDS. So then, thinking maybe if I get the Premium Search I would get what I was looking for -- NO! They will entice you with a message saying, "There's a big asset in your records, you should claim it," then you discover it's a house you sold decades ago.

They include those sales records, alright, but still NO DIVORCE RECORDS. Then I looked over some of my old addresses and found looong lists of names of people who "may have" lived in the same building decades ago -- people you likely never met, which fills out your "report." Then if you're feeling especially P.O.'ed by the experience, try calling "Customer Service" so they can put you in an "on hold," message loop that never gets answered. SUCH A RIPOFF. I want my money back!

Every time I try to locate someone from my past, I can always find the contact information and a report. The site is super helpful! I have used it for reunions and locate former classmates, professors, and colleagues. It is well worth the cost of the membership!

I paid $35 to see my own report and it is missing very important background information. I called to complain and I was told old records wouldn't show up. I checked a friend's record and their 20 year old record showed. I do not recommend this service.

My ex used your site to try and find negative things against me to interfere with me seeing my children. She never even paid for a review. Just screenshot the page where it says you folks have three criminal reports on me (included... she sent me the image with a rather nasty "gotcha now" type message). Which is outright FALSE. As I've never been arrested, never failed a drug screen, never had any convictions, and have even been registered with the Department of Homeland Security for employment and shown absolutely squeaky clean.

If this is just a hook or gimmick to dupe people into paying for your service, you need to rethink what damage you can do to clean reputations. "If she paid for the service and you're telling the truth, there should be nothing there." If you're thinking of replying with that, don't bother. All it took was her screenshot without even going into detail for her lawyer to try and jump all over me in court and slander my name. Either you need to remove my information from your listings, change your "gimmick", or print up a notarized statement of the true report that shows nothing so that I may clear my name in court.

What you have done is, by definition, libel and is a criminal act in itself. It has interfered with me seeing my children and that's one line you do NOT cross with me! Remove my name, clear my name, and/or change your "gimmick". This is your only warning or you'll be hearing from MY attorney. And if I have to pay for your service to clear my name you WILL reimburse it, with interest, for hardship and defamation.

I had canceled originally, but after my company gained a lot of use out of it, I renewed. I've compared this service to BeenVerified - Instant Checkmate has consistently had more information in general and/or a correct information on people.

I'm not sure how people I don't know are linked to me. Otherwise, this is the best people searching tool I have ever used. The accuracy is very good with dates of birth and past residences. This is a good product to check for identity theft is a growing crime. Keep up the good work!

It looks as if I have multiple Premium Reports for the same person. Am I being charged for each? In the last few months a bunch of errors have begun showing up in reports that were all correct up until the last time you "appear to have updated" your system. What's going on? Don't you test changes before you put them into the system?

The information I got wasn't dissatisfying, but I did expect a little more for the monthly fee... plus $19.99 per premium report? That one caught me by surprise but thought I'd try it once to see what I got. Nothing life changing, actually not much additional information. Not everyone is going to have dirt pulled on them... and a lot of the dirt was accessible from other sites. I was OK with getting through the first month and then cancelling, even after paying the extra $19.99 premium fee, but what ticked me off was I ended up with another premium charge. There is a pop up that asks you if you're ready for the premium, and I admit it was a little late, but for $20 a pop I think it should take you through more of a check out process, rather than just hitting one button.

I have found that I can not get any information on some Persons!!! Which is VERY DISAPPOINTING TO ME!!! And a lot of Information is not up to Date!!! Like Phone Numbers and Addresses... It also said that I myself have 34 criminal charges which is very WRONG!!! And has my daddy has 8 and he has NONE PERIOD!!!

Usually helpful. It would be beneficial if you could indicate the last time a phone number was verified as you indicate the last time an address was used. It is infuriating that your drop-down messages that have check boxes for "Do not show this again" are completely ignored. If you plan to ignore the check boxes, then don't include them on the drop-downs. It just makes Checkmate look inefficient or insensitive to your customers.

Too many dropdowns. Right in the middle of every search, down comes the ad to buy the premium report. I like your product and the ease of use but I will change if the annoying dropdowns persist. Once every 10 times would be ok. Please!!

I signed up to do a background check on myself and this service did not provide any useful information. To add insult to injury I was just charged again for this ** service. I regret having signed up but I will be canceling this subscription as soon I finish this review.

I was looking for my girlfriend's biological father. I had limited information and the information I entered seemed to pop up the most accurate results in all the searches we have done in the last 2 years. I am happy with it. The information is presented in an organized and easy to understand manner. It also makes it easy to connect the dots when researching lost relatives. I have found my own lost relatives by other means and wish I use Checkmate sooner. Hopefully everything pans out well for my girlfriend. No one should go their entire lives without knowing the other half of their genetics.