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Check It Out! : A Top Investigator Shows You How to Find Out Practicallly Anything About Anybody in Your Life

Check It Out! : A Top Investigator Shows You How to Find Out Practicallly Anything About Anybody in Your Life

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Author: Edmund J. Pankau
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars 6 reviews
Sales Rank: 958349

Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.4

ISBN: 0809229005
Dewey Decimal Number: 352.387
EAN: 9780809229000
ASIN: 0809229005

Publication Date: December 11, 1998
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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Fully updated and expanded to include new sources now available to the public, Check It Out! shows readers how to run a thorough, confidential, and completely legal background search on someone, locate a person they haven't seen in years, and much more. The author, a top investigator, lets the reader in on the best investigative "tricks of the trade" and includes comprehensive information on using the Internet as an investigative tool.




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2 out of 5 stars A teaser   May 11, 2004
 1 out of 4 found this review helpful

Apparently Mr. Pankau thinks his readers aren't savvy enough to realize his books contain just enough information to "make you dangerous", but not enough to follow through thoroughly. I have no doubt that Mr. Pankau makes the majority of his wages by writing books and lecturing.


4 out of 5 stars Useful, Interesting and Surpising   October 24, 2001
 13 out of 14 found this review helpful

I found this book to be a wealth of information on what information tracks people, is public, or provided to anyone for a minimal fee. I was especially surpised to find information about MYSELF...which is why I bought 'Hide your assets and disappear'. I agree with another review that states that the book is interesting and helps explain how people are traced..but fails to instruct exactly HOW it is you should go about it. I would have liked to have seen a more precise, instructional book...but I still recommend this as a great read. Using the book's advice and the internet I've come across lots of information that has proved useful. It's a small investment with a big pay-off in knowledge. Perhaps he'll write a follow-up where he goes into more detail. I STRONGLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK and enjoyed it.


3 out of 5 stars Check It Out   August 2, 2000
 20 out of 21 found this review helpful

After hearing the Author on a radio program I decided to get this book. I was a little disappointed. The book has some great ideas on how to obtain information on people, but the author does not tell you how to go about getting this information. Alot of this book is about the author's personal experiences, but again he does not tell you how he got the information from his sources to solve the case. I guess if he did he would be out of a job!


5 out of 5 stars Check It Out!: A Top Investigator Shows You How to   February 13, 2000
 17 out of 21 found this review helpful

This is a book that is very current with the information, and has some great information not found in other books on this topic. I have read every book I can find on this subject and this is by far one of the best.


2 out of 5 stars Would have made an okay magazine article   April 5, 1999
 43 out of 43 found this review helpful

This book is a slim 160 pages if you add the introductory material, not 178 pages as advertised. The missing 18 pages may have been the index, since there isn't one, and there is no way to find anything without flipping through the book. The content comes off as a rough draft, and really needed someone to structure and edit it. Overall it feels like a vanity press book. Despite the slim size of the book, there is much that is left out. For example, we are told how to determine what state a social security number was issued in, but for the more useful information of how to decode the year it was issued, we are told to "buy another book [Pankau] wrote called the Investigator's Guide." If this is actually the book titled "The Investigative Guidebook" available on Amazon, well it looks like we need to shell out another $35 for another "178-page" book. Another area that bothers me is that many of the techniques he describes seem to be of borderline legality. I'd like a more informed opinion about this than Pankau's; on the Art Bell show, he really seemed to be playing fast and loose with what was legal and not.

 

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