Myth #4 - You’ll get unlimited access to license plate information. Reality - These searches aren’t nearly as cheap as they claim to be! Read the fine print, and you’ll see that you’ve actually got to sign up for an expensive monthly subscription to see your results. Myth #3 - The license plate search is so cheap that you can’t go wrong. The ONLY kind of information that’s available this way is the old records that data aggregators have purchased. To work instantly, the website has to spit out information that’s already sitting on its server.
Reality - Instant results are like a giant, neon sign saying that the website doesn’t have access to current DMV records. Only law enforcement and licensed private investigators are allowed to access a state’s DMV computer and get current information Data aggregators - like the websites we’ve mentioned - are only allowed to buy old records. Reality - Current license plate records are NOT available to the public. Myth #1 - License plate lookups are public records. Need help navigating the fine print? Just keep these myths in mind: License Plate Lookup Scams: Myth vs Reality If you don’t bother to read it, you’ll think your license plate information is legitimate when it’s really not! The vast majority of license plate search websites have similar fine print. “You agree and understand that the availability of a search report does not necessarily mean the report will yield correct results, relevant results, or any results at all.”īottom line - the fine print tells the real story. However, if you look closely at the fine print in their Terms of Service you’ll see: Whatever you choose to call them, you’ll see fancy sales copy, testimonials, and animations that are similar to other two. It’s proof that you have to read EVERYTHING on these websites carefully - even the big print!įor our third test, we logged onto, which includes their affiliates and. They stop just short of saying that, though. All of the pretty logos underneath this sentence make you think that Verispy’s background checks are the ones that were featured. To add insult to injury, the bottom of each page on says “Background Checks have been featured on many popular networks”. However, current license plate records are NOT available to the public! As soon as we read their fine print, we knew any license plate lookup we did through them would likely be inaccurate. In layman’s terms, this means they only provide information that’s already publicly available.
#LEGIT FREE LICENSE PLATE LOOKUP UPDATE#
We do not create, verify, or guarantee the data as being accurate for it is collected from sources that may be slow to update or revise information collected… As a Public Information Broker, we do not provide any non-publicly available information such as any credit based data, medical records, insurance records, employment history, social security numbers or any other information that is not made available to the general public.” “ receives its information from various sources, including internet sites.
This testimonial makes it sound like Search Quarry has access to the same resources as law enforcement, but that’s not true! Their own disclaimer says they use “ various public sources”, and that’s NOT what law enforcement uses! I feel like I can’t afford not to have access to this information.” One of Search Quarry’s testimonials grabbed our attention because it said, “ I had thought that only police officers had access to this information. Most people don’t read this part because they’re so impressed with the fancy sales copy and customer testimonials. Data availability is largely dependent on various public sources from which the information is aggregated.” “Please be aware that the information obtained using searches may not always be accurate and up to date as we do not create, verify, or guarantee the accuracy or the amount of information provided through our service. Search Quarry told us! Specifically, in teeny-tiny print, it said: However, there’s no guarantee the information in that report is actually accurate! To see it, though, we had to pay the $1 fee AND sign up for a continuing subscription that costs $19.95 per month. Some fancy animation popped up, and then - voila! - we were told that our report was ready. We typed a fake license plate number (abc123) into their search box. It does - until you actually put them to the test! A little further down, we saw them promise “ the most up to date information available”. Right at the top, we saw the headline “ Search Our Private Database for All Vehicle & Driving Records”. For example, we logged onto Search Quarry, a popular license plate lookup website.
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