Effective Advertising and Info Management

Intelius Inc., a leading information commerce company that provides people and businesses with data necessary for making intelligent and informed day-to-day decisions while maintaining peace of mind and security, is considered as one of the private eyes for the next generation. By accessing public databases and commercial records, Intelius can compile a lot of vital information about anybody.

Intelius, founded by a group of visionaries led by Naveen Jain in January 2003, filed to go public in 2008. A year later, in May 2009, Intellius further enhanced its offerings by purchasing Spock, a company that offers screening services for all types and sizes of businesses. The acquisition allows Intelius to strengthen its services thereby covering more grounds and protecting more customers in various ways that ensure their everyday safety and security.

As a web-based people search provider and ID theft company, Intelius provides more than a hundred intelligence services which include criminal background checks such as:

OFAC/Terrorist Watchlist

50-State Sex Offender Check

Multi-State Instant Criminal Search

State & County Criminal Search

Drug Testing/Fingerprinting

International Criminal Searches

a Seven Year Criminal Check

people searches such as Credit Check, DMV Check, Professional License Check, I-9 Verification, Skills and Behavioral Testing, Workers’ Compensation Search, Professional Reference Check, and many more

For several years, Intelius was named “Best New Company” as well as a finalist in the “Most Innovative Company” category of the American Business Awards. Furthermore, the company is also one of the 11 security companies listed in the 2007 issue of Inc 500 Fastest Growing Companies. The company’s nonstop progress is due largely to its employees who strive to come up with better ways to protect customers.

Intellius attracts businesses through advertising on major search engines such as Google and Yahoo.

In the months between May 2004 and May 2005, roughly 1.2 million computer users in the Unites States suffered losses estimated at about $900 million. Two years later, in 2007, adult computer users reported a loss of approximately $3.2 billion. These figures are results of a scam called phishing.

Phishing is a criminal act which refers to the attempt of obtaining classified information like social security numbers, credit card, and bank account details via fraudulent means. A perpetrator sends a genuine-looking e-mail requesting a person to give out personal details by clicking on a web site link. The web site looks legitimate except for some small, unnoticeable details. Most of these e-mails warn the user that his account will be suspended if no reply is sent. Phishers also send messages via instant messaging and obtain personal information from social networking sites like MySpace.

In the past years, the main targets of phishers have been banks and online payment services like PayPal. There are also e-mails claiming to be from the Internal Revenue Service, or the IRS, asking for details about a taxpayer’s account and asking him to pay his taxes in advance.

Since phishing is considered a form of identity theft, aside from financial losses, it is also responsible for ruining a victim’s credit status and the denial of access to the victim’s own account. Online payment services also tend to lose a large amount of revenues. And since everything is done online, computer systems can be infected with virus.

Phishing takes its concept from the idea of fishing, where a single bait is used in the hope of attracting some to bite it.

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