WHAT IS SKIP TRACING?
In a general sense, skip tracing is the process of tracking down people who are missing, unresponsive, or hard to find. Skip tracing is an investigatory practice that’s commonly deployed to pinpoint an individual’s whereabouts due to unpaid debts or unfulfilled financial responsibilities. The person who tries to locate people like this is known as a skip tracer.
WHAT IS BATCH SKIP TRACING?
Batch (or bulk) skip tracing is the process of gathering the basic contact information of several people for business purposes. It is commonly used by real estate companies that need specific pieces of information (phone numbers, addresses, emails, etc.) for many potential buyers or sellers.
Skip tracers can be employed for many different industries and professions, including:
- Bail bondsmen
- Banks and financial institutions
- Collection agencies
- Credit card companies
- Employment and tenant verification services
- Genealogists
- Insurance fraud investigators
- Journalists
- Lawyers and other legal personnel
- Medical finance professionals
- Private investigators
- Police detectives
- Process servers
- Real estate agencies
- Repossession agents
