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For investigators

ScraperCity for investigators

Locate people across billions of records and check criminal and court history, priced per result.

Investigation work depends on depth of records and current contact details. You need to identify a person from a fragment of information, find where they are now, and check their criminal and court history to build a full picture. ScraperCity puts people search, skip tracing, and background checks on one account, all drawing on 10B+ public records and priced per result, so a single lead never costs more than the searches it takes. Skip trace is the single most-run tool on our platform, and these public-records tools are among the most-used tools we offer.

The tools you will use

Lookups investigators run most

A skip trace in practice

Most investigations start with a fragment and move through the tools in order. Here is the path a partial identifier takes on our platform.

  1. Start with what you have. A full name and a city, an old phone number, or a stale address is enough to begin.
  2. Run the People Finder or Skip Trace. It searches 10B+ records and returns a shortlist of candidate records to work from, with a current address, phones, and associated people among them.
  3. Confirm the live contact. Run Mobile Finder to confirm a working cell number, or validate an email on file, so you act on a detail that is current rather than one that is years old.
  4. Check the record. Run a Background Check on the confirmed identity for criminal and court history. A clean search is still an answer, and only searches that find records are billed.

What we see public-records work do that works

Every people search, skip trace, and records pull runs on our platform, so we see how investigators actually work a case from a fragment. Each successful trace comes back as a shortlist of matches to work from, and the patterns are consistent.

These are public-records searches, not consumer reports under the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

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