{"id":10191,"date":"2017-07-06T08:50:26","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T13:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=10191"},"modified":"2017-07-06T08:50:26","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T13:50:26","slug":"word-of-the-day-172","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/07\/06\/word-of-the-day-172\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Skiptracing<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Skiptracing<\/b> (also skip tracing<\/b>, or debtor and fugitive recovery<\/b>[1]<\/a><\/sup>) is the process of locating a person’s whereabouts for any number of purposes. A skiptracer<\/b> is someone who performs this task, which may be the person’s primary occupation. The term “skip” (as a noun) refers to the person being searched for, and is derived from the idiomatic expression “to skip town”, meaning to depart (perhaps in a rush), leaving minimal clues behind to “trace” the “skip” to a new location. [Wikipedia<\/strong><\/em><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Noted in an interview<\/a> with Frank Ahearn, NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (24 June 2017):<\/p>\n

How did you become a \u201cskip tracer\u201d, finding people who have run out on their lives?<\/b><\/p>\n

I was doing undercover work for a detective agency in the 1980s when I saw the skip tracer at work and it fascinated me. I told my boss I wanted to do the job, and he said, \u201cSure, if you can get me a copy of my phone records.\u201d That night I went to a payphone, called the phone company pretending to be my boss and said I needed to go over my calls. They told me every place my boss had called in the last few months. The next day I became a skip tracer.<\/p>\n

I got really good at \u201cpretexting\u201d \u2013 essentially tricking people into handing over information<\/a>. Later, I had my own firm of skip tracers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Skiptracing: Skiptracing (also skip tracing, or debtor and fugitive recovery[1]) is the process of locating a person’s whereabouts for any number of purposes. A skiptracer is someone who performs this task, which may be the person’s primary occupation. The term “skip” (as a noun) refers to the person being searched \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10192,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10191\/revisions\/10192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}