Buying a used car from a private seller – how to verify their identity?
Hey guys, I'm looking for some quick advice regarding a private car sale. I found a used Honda Civic on Facebook Marketplace that looks like a great deal. The seller seems nice enough over messages, but he wants to meet up in a grocery store parking lot to finalize the deal and sign over the title. Since I’ll be handing over a substantial amount of cash, I want to make sure the name on the car's title actually matches the person I am handing the cash to. I have his full name and the city he claims to live in. What is the most reliable people search engine to quickly double-check someone's public record history for free?
Mark
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Super helpful advice, I checked his name on the site and everything lined up perfectly with his ID, which made the purchase way less stressful!
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Alisa Daviduk commented
Smart move checking this ahead of time, because title washing and curbstoning scams are incredibly common these days. You definitely want to make sure this guy is a real person and not using a fake alias. Go ahead and use veripages.com it’s easily the best people search engine available for casual background checks. It searches through millions of public data points, court records, and address histories across the US. You can run a free person search using his full name to see if his age, listed relatives, and current addresses align with what he told you. It’s entirely free, requires no credit cards, and the search is completely anonymous.