InstantCheckmate

I think its a scam i would just go to trust worthy sites like directscreening.com they have a national background search for $16.00. It stays stuck on pending forever.

2/3 of report inc curate a waist of money should be sued for false in accurate
Reports.
Listed places ever been people i never meant phone numbers never used.

FALSE ADVERTISE AS FREE TO GET EVERYONE HOOKED THAT KEEP CHARGING YOU MONEY AFTER YOU FILL OUT PERSONAL IN FO WITH YOUR CREDIT CARD...

VERY UNETHICAL-CALLING WASHINGTON DC TO REPORT THIS-WORK OUT OF A GAMBLING CASINO IN LAS VEGAS.

After signing up to perform a background check I went round and round on the website asking me endless questions. In other words, I didn't receive anything except a bunch of aggravation.

After a half hour inputting info, the site finally admitted they charge a fee and you have to open an account. This is theft of time and then money. Thanks a lot

Inaccurate information. Scam artist at work. None of the information is correct and I used my own number that I've had for 22 years. If I could give zero stars I would

I typically don't write reviews like this unless it's a nice piece of furniture or nice piece of clothing LOL however I was pleasantly surprised that Susan was not just friendly she was very thorough and knowledgeable with regard to the process and she made what could have been a very frustrating moment for me quite easy thank you Susan you're a keeper

Scumbags. 10 minutes of status bars and then disclose that you have to pay. I wish I could find a way to waste their time. Instant my $#*!. F*** you, InstantCheckmate.

They waste your time with progress bars, make you wait intentionally, then ask $27 for your report because you waited sop long. The report did not included anything I already knew.

I have tried for 2 weeks now to set up an account for one month via paypal. I suspect they are trying to force me to use credit card because there is NOTHING wrong with my Paypal -- and I called Paypal and they agreed that they WOULD pay instant checkmate but checkmate has NOT REQUESTED a payment. Two weeks and several hours on the phone later, and instant checkmate refuses to call paypal - who said they will set up an email payment confirmation at checkmate's request, for me to confirm - so why won't instant checkmate make this call? Because they are FULL OF IT - they keep stringing me lies - "they have an IT glitch that will be fixed in 24 hours" (so what happened in the 13 days since they first said that?); or "paypal is having an issue and it should be fixed in 24 hours" -- same sort of lie.
DO NOT TRUST THEM!

So google put their website as the first result when I searched for a place I can check my driving record.

Put my name in, selected where I live, gave them my DISPOSABLE EMAIL.
Then there's endless progress bars.
They are soooooooo fake.
If you need that much time to get information from various sources and compile them for real, dude you should fire your programmer; I can code better and I'm not even a programmer.

And then after about eternity, they said they've done it and I should pay them.
Nope, you are so bad and I can smell it from over the internet.

But then the spam folder of my email EXPLODED.
Checked the headers of them.
Yep all of the spams use the DISPOSABLE EMAIL I told them.

Thank goodness I dodged a bullet.

If you still love your life, stay clear of this horrible website.

This site should be shut down. You get four day free trial and then they start charging you 29.99 a month. I got just as much information by googling my name.

Horrible. To check if they giving wright information I did research on somebody I knew: got information mixed of this person relative and something else. Couldn't get my money back!
CON people

IT HAS BEEN MORE THAN SIX MONTHS SIMCE I BRIEFLY ENTERED A SINGLE SEARCH FOR SOMEONE, WHICH I DID NOT USE AND DID NOT PURSUE. I NOW GET ANYWHERE FROM FIVE TO FIFTEEN ANNOYING MESSAGES FROM INSTANT CHECKMATE EVERY DAY ABOUT THIS. GO AWAY "CHECKMATE!" PLEASE LEAVE ME ALONE!

$31 + to find out that the person I was looking for was my dad and he had a wife.
Yikes, I've know that for 72 years.
Absolutely no school, military service or job related information.
Beware!

Willfully withholding vital information is the legal definition of FRAUD. Need I say more?
Oh. My own phone number is nine years old and my daughter divorced her new husband!

I subscribed for this site entered my credit card. They message came up like: They will send full background report to my email. THEY NEVER DID.
PLEASE DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY,, THE ONLY TRUE INFORMATION YOU WILL SEE IS THE AGE, LOCATION AND POSSIBLE RELATIVES. SCAMMERSSSS

Cancelled my membership 3 times and still get charged every month. Now taking it to my CC company to try to handle, always apologize but never refund the charges.

Anyone who gives this site better than 1 star works there and is required to by the employer. The site is garbage. Signing up only means you're a dumb-$#*!.

Membership touts access to info in 30 different data points. However, what is accessed is mostly available in white pages, except for criminal info. Once you pay and get your report, you are then inundated with numerous options to access deeper information previously not available, of course for more money. Its a bait and switch. What misleading BS. Also, the criminal background info is so inaccurate its ridiculous. Be careful on what you receive and believe. Double check court case numbers the best you can. Most of the info is incomplete which makes it very hard to verify if the match to the search name is true. I did a self background check and the report had 9 different crimes associated with other people, not me, and I dont have a common name. You are better off just doing a Freedom of Information request to the state or local government. The company states that they cross check all info. BS. Theres a big difference between crosschecking information with a second database, and verifying the accuracy of said information. Dont waste your time or money. Oh and when you cancel, they immediately offer to extend your membership for $9 instead of $34 a month. The info received in the reports is not worth a monthly bill.

My old email address was used to open an account and investigate myself in 2017. I am disabled and do not work, why would I investigate myself. My husband realized this charge on my card and I did not recognize it. We called and were told what is was, that it was never used since activated but being charged monthly. They closed the account but said they would only return 12 months. Asked why only 12 months and the answer was, that is how far our system allows. How can a legitimate company acknowledging what has happened cannot return the full amount. Taking $$ from someone on SSDI, does not make a company trustworthy.

July 13,2020
Instant Checkmate response at Consumer Affairs
We apologize for any confusion you may have experienced with our billing system. When a user activates their account, they must provide an electronic signature authorizing Instant Checkmate to charge their card as described, including for the automatic renewal of their membership. A manager from our member care department will contact you privately to help resolve this issue as soon as possible.
Sincerely,
Instant Checkmate Support
8/25/2020
Instant Checkmate blocked us on twitter and Facebook. They have yet to contact us to resolve this. We did get an email from Amy, Director of Member Services but when we called, there was no Amy or a Member Services. Maybe they need to be investigated.

I normally don't write reviews, but I felt like I had to. So here it goes...
UPDATE---my agent wrote me back and gave me 35.12 dollars worth of money back! I
My other agent did get back to me last week and she said like "we get our data from numerous public sources. The information is then uploaded into our database.If you are getting inaccurate information on our site, it's due to the information we obtain. Unfortunately, we cannot edit or manipulate the data. When you purchase a subscription, we guarantee that we will search every database available to us; however, because we simply display records as they're provided to us, we cannot guarantee the content of the records that may show up in the final report."
So far instant checkmate hasn't contacted me about my experience and my gut feeling it it probably NEVER will.
At least I found sex offenders living near my area. I really like it a lot. The addresses here are more current than the ones I found on Spokeo. It even offered me the option to delete records.
However, I still won't recommend instant checkmate...
Sorry I didn't take screenshots otherwise I would've had uploaded it!

I have become one of the latest victims of Instant checkmate they lure you in with specials then give you NOTHING. Why the heck are they acreditted with the BBB.
Now I don't trust them either
Why are these crooks still in business?¿?