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Check It Out! : A Top Investigator Shows You How to Find Out Practicallly Anything About Anybody in Your Life

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This book is a slim 160 pages if you add the introductory material, not 178 pages as advertised. The missing 18 pages may have been the index, since there isn't one, and there is no way to find anything without flipping through the book. The content comes off as a rough draft, and really needed someone to structure and edit it. Overall it feels like a vanity press book. Despite the slim size of the book, there is much that is left out. For example, we are told how to determine what state a social security number was issued in, but for the more useful information of how to decode the year it was issued, we are told to "buy another book [Pankau] wrote called the Investigator's Guide." If this is actually the book titled "The Investigative Guidebook" available on Amazon, well it looks like we need to shell out another $35 for another "178-page" book. Another area that bothers me is that many of the techniques he describes seem to be of borderline legality. I'd like a more informed opinion about this than Pankau's; on the Art Bell show, he really seemed to be playing fast and loose with what was legal and not.

After hearing the Author on a radio program I decided to get this book. I was a little disappointed. The book has some great ideas on how to obtain information on people, but the author does not tell you how to go about getting this information. Alot of this book is about the author's personal experiences, but again he does not tell you how he got the information from his sources to solve the case. I guess if he did he would be out of a job!

I found this book to be a wealth of information on what information tracks people, is public, or provided to anyone for a minimal fee. I was especially surpised to find information about MYSELF...which is why I bought 'Hide your assets and disappear'. I agree with another review that states that the book is interesting and helps explain how people are traced..but fails to instruct exactly HOW it is you should go about it. I would have liked to have seen a more precise, instructional book...but I still recommend this as a great read. Using the book's advice and the internet I've come across lots of information that has proved useful. It's a small investment with a big pay-off in knowledge. Perhaps he'll write a follow-up where he goes into more detail. I STRONGLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK and enjoyed it.

This is a book that is very current with the information, and has some great information not found in other books on this topic. I have read every book I can find on this subject and this is by far one of the best.

I bought this book after hearing Mr. Pankau on radio. I have been trying to find my birth mother for over 16 years and just couldnt do it. With the help of this book, and a phone call to the author, I found her yesterday. We are going to meet tomorrow and I am so excited. She lived only 60 miles away and I never knew it. She was in the voter registration and census records just like mr. Pankau said she would be. This book is just wonderful for anyone who wants to find someone or something about anyone!

Apparently Mr. Pankau thinks his readers aren't savvy enough to realize his books contain just enough information to "make you dangerous", but not enough to follow through thoroughly. I have no doubt that Mr. Pankau makes the majority of his wages by writing books and lecturing.