Getting a public criminal background check has some unknown traps for new players and there are things you need to know as we explain in this report.

So you have your suspicions- about that future employee, new neighbor, on-line dating service sweetheart that seems too good to be true, and you decide to do a public background criminal check.

While there are many sources to obtain the information, many are not linked to each other, have incomplete information, or only have current offenses and not past ones. You can fool yourself into a false sense of security, when you believe you have done all the searches and not found anything, but you must still exercise caution if you decide to do a public background criminal check yourself.

The FBI has a convenient online Cyber Crime form for victims and/or the 3rd party to the complaint that is an easy-to-use reporting mechanism. A partnership has been formed with the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3 formerly known as the Internet Fraud Complaint Center IFCC) and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) for the combined objective of identifying and bringing to justice those responsible for online internet fraud.

So it happened. You took all the precautions: updated your software, installed a firewall, monitored your child’s internet habits, and didn’t open any unfamiliar emails. However, despite your best efforts, someone in your household fell for a phishing scam. Or clicked on a bad link. Or chatted with the wrong person. And now there’s a problem that needs solving, and it goes beyond an infected computer.

The FBI indicates 3.7% rise in violent crimes throughout the USA during the first six months of 2006 in their ‘Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report’ (www.fbi.gov/publications.htm). This data, categorized by city’s of 100,000 and over in population, can be a valuable tool to law enforcement agency partners in their prevention of violent crime, murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, property crime, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft and arson.