These days I have to check online on the status of them and what not. Years ago I’m sure a lot of companies may have just lied like your saying because how would you know. That said in 2020 I changed my address on something to Sofi stadium because I was being dumb and had paid something off I thought but they contacted me years later in 2020 saying I owed them $280 or something. Turns out I sent them the amount I had owed the month prior, so the interest that accrued over the month left a balance of like $25 or something and they just let it sit and add late fees until that collection company called me. Being stubborn I asked them if I could pay the $25 and call it even, they said no so I hung up and changed the address on the account because California has more protections about harassing people.
Sure enough all my background checks now have a section where the county that Inglewood is in has to state I don’t have a criminal record there. I’ve never even been to LA, let alone lived there… oops.
These days I have to check online on the status of them and what not. Years ago I’m sure a lot of companies may have just lied like your saying because how would you know. That said in 2020 I changed my address on something to Sofi stadium because I was being dumb and had paid something off I thought but they contacted me years later in 2020 saying I owed them $280 or something. Turns out I sent them the amount I had owed the month prior, so the interest that accrued over the month left a balance of like $25 or something and they just let it sit and add late fees until that collection company called me. Being stubborn I asked them if I could pay the $25 and call it even, they said no so I hung up and changed the address on the account because California has more protections about harassing people.
Sure enough all my background checks now have a section where the county that Inglewood is in has to state I don’t have a criminal record there. I’ve never even been to LA, let alone lived there… oops.