Accurint Best Practices…
Background and Cost
Accurint is a collection of public data bases linked by sorting software. It returns a sequential list of (possible) addresses for any name. It can also provide neighbors to known NCP addresses and an assortment of NCP's relative's name and their addresses as well search for former addresses and cross reference telephone numbers.
The cost of the simple People & Business search is $0.25 cents. If the search returns no hit, there is no charge.
Accurint also provides a telephone directory and telephone-to-street address directory for $0.10 cents per search. Again - no hits, no charge.
Other searches can cost a lot more! Please check out the cost before requesting.
Accurint is particularly valuable in Finding:
- SSNs for NCP's by sifting information backwards from phone number to address to SSN.
- Employer Phone Numbers for the National Data of New Hire (NDNH) employers. Accurint makes follow-up easy when the NDNH employer doesn't respond to an OWI.
- Relatives or family members to help in skip tracing.
Search Tips
- Enter as little information as possible. The more information in the query, the narrower the search. For example, entering SSN and WA will not provide an address in another state.
- Use Employer FEIN from IA screen – before using name and / or address.
- Enter an "age range" instead of DOB. This will often catch errors in data.
- Check the child's SSN for state of issue and run NCP's name in that state.
- For military personnel, try running the name with the ZIP code of his or her APO/FPO.
- Use NCP's former address to see if this locates a friend or relative for whom you can call.
- Try various spellings of the last name.
- With a hyphenated name, try reversing the names and / or use them one at a time.
- Use CP’s address (if CP and NCP lived together) or a current boy or girl friend or spouse. This pulls up individuals who reported to the credit bureau that they lived at that address.
- Use the Print List to help in reviewing long lists. (We are charged for every search with hits – even if we did the same search before.)
NOTE: Accurint is NOT a substitute for the required credit bureau report in No Locate cases – But - It may produce information that makes the more expensive credit bureau unnecessary.
Presented by Darla Woodworth, Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, Division of Child Support
Posted on March 24, 2008