No matter what business, what industry, what section of society, there is always at least one charlatan to gum up the works. In this case, according to an article on Action 3 News, in Omaha, Nebraska, a Bellevue man was charged with running a background check scam. The man formed a company and then convinced people who was running background checks for them by accessing the FBI and Interpol databases. An interesting scam, for sure.
I have to wonder if his clients were puzzled when all of the job candidates and subjects came back as “clear,” meaning with no records found. Some must have taken heart and thought at long last we are living in a perfect world where all the job candidates are walking around with unblemished records, no criminal histories, not even the proverbial winter vacation shoplifting charge for some suntan oil and a bottle of rum.
The man accused of running the bogus background checks is David Musk. Must reported charged $600.00 per background check and made off with some $170,000, before anyone got wise. My first thought was “who charges $600.00 for a background check? My second thought was, ” who is paying this kind of money for a background check?” Must be some kind of background check.
But not one conducted from the FBI or Interpol databases. That’s for sure. Private citizens cannot access these criminal database files. And to scam people into believing you can…well…it’s not nice.
