If you've ever tried to navigate or build your family tree, research your ancestors, or look-up your grand parents old address to see if they lived next to someone famous then you've probably tried to use the 1930 census.
When my youngest son turned six last summer I realized that my dad was six in 1930 so I decided to try and locate the 1930 census from when he was a six year old boy. I found the page and it reveals some really interesting information.
What's great about reading census data is you get to see a lot of information such as the State, county, city, street name, house number, names, relation, home data if they owned or rented or if they had a radio or lived on a farm. Personal descriptions include gender, color or race, age at last birthday, marital status [...]
Attention credit and collections professionals. Debt collectors must continue to obtain prior express consent to call a consumer's cell phone number when using an autodialer or prerecorded message.
On February 15, 2012, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a Report and Order under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA) imposing new restrictions on autodialed and prerecorded telemarketing calls (robocalls).
A recent Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruling on the TCPA "Telephone Consumer Protection Act" has caused some confusion for collection agents, collection agencies, and some of our clients that use our phone list cleaning tools to identify line type.
The ruling talks about a debt collector's ability to call a consumer's cell phone [...]
You can search through Google People and Pages now to find all sorts of topics and people you might be interested in following. Going to the Grand Canyon, search Grand Canyon in Google Pages and watch publicly shared video's from others. You never know who you might follow.
Google Releases Personal, Profiles, People In Search
Google said Tuesday it has added three search features. Personal results lets people search and find information about themselves, such as Google+ photos and posts, both those that belong to the person and those shared with others viewable on results pages. Profiles in Search, both in auto-complete and results, enables users to find people they're close to or might be interested in following. People and Pages aims to help searchers find people's profiles [...]
Phishing:
Phishing became one of the most costly and incredibly financially rewarding kinds of identity theft. Significantly more phishing scams are being operated as a result of organized criminal gangs, meticulously created and adequately financed in order to dupe even the most careful shopper.
Phishing utilizes convincing-looking yet fraudulent email messages as well as internet pages. These tactics are basically exact duplicates of well-known and respected companies such as chain stores as well as financial institutions in an effort to fool a person into disclosing sensitive personal financial details which they can use in order to gain access to an individual's personal information.
Typically the emails generally have some variety of an alert for which you really [...]
SearchBug offers two ways to verify a phone number. If you're simply trying to verify if a phone number is a cell phone or a land line then the SearchBug Identify Phone Number tool is the simplest solution. You can Identify one phone number at a time at no charge (daily limits apply). If you have batches of phone numbers there is also a manual batch process a self service phone batch process and a SaaS API integrated real-time solution.
If you're looking to append phone records to verify the line type, OCN, LNP Rate Center or any other type of phone data to a phone list the Searchbug batch and SaaS API tools can save you time and a small fortune. You can clean and append small batches (under 50,000) for as little as $5 per 1,000 and large batches (several million) can be lower than [...]
