skip tracing
Hunting missing debtors
Skip tracing is the process of locating a person who has "skipped" town or otherwise become hard to find—typically someone evading debt collectors, legal summons, or law enforcement.
The term comes from "skip" meaning to depart hastily.
Skip tracers use public records, databases, and investigative techniques to track down their subjects: The bail bondsman hired a skip tracer to find the fugitive.
Professional fugitive capturer
- locatingDetermining position of
- debtorOne who owes
- absconderOne who flees secretly
- missing personUnlocated person sought by authorities
bail jumper · process server · database search · social engineering · pretexting · public records · credit report · background check
Ongoing observation of something
- stakeoutProlonged covert observation
- tailRear animal appendage
- shadowingFollowing to observe
- observationAttentive watching or remark
reconnaissance · undercover · sleuthing · scouting · track · watch · intelligence gathering · social media monitoring
Reasoned decision-making capacity
- lienClaim securing debt
- garnishmentCourt-ordered debt collection
- repossessionCreditor seizing collateral
- foreclosureLender seizes mortgaged property
bankruptcy · creditor · debtor · subpoena · summons · court records · docket · compliance
bounty hunter
Professional fugitive capturer
missing person · bail jumper · process server · database search · social engineering · pretexting · public records · credit report · background check · employment history
monitoring
Ongoing observation of something
observation · reconnaissance · undercover · sleuthing · scouting · track · watch · intelligence gathering · social media monitoring · geolocation
judgment
Reasoned decision-making capacity
- lienClaim securing debt
- garnishmentCourt-ordered debt collection
- repossessionCreditor seizing collateral
foreclosure · bankruptcy · creditor · debtor · subpoena · summons · court records · docket · compliance · due diligence
- investigationinvestigation, detective, evidence, clue, case
- bounty huntingbounty hunter, fugitive, capture, bail bond, bail bondsman
- debt collectiondebt collection, garnishment, late payments, debt collector, delinquent accounts
- Private InvestigatorsPI, private detective, detective agency, gumshoe, shamus
- debtdebt, creditor, owe, debtor, lender
- billingbilling, bill, invoices, payment, invoicing
skip tracinggoing underground
Descending beneath earth's surface
disappearing · hiding · absconding · evasion · laying low
skip tracingskipping
Rhythmic hopping locomotion
fleeing · running · evading · escape · bail jumping
skip tracingsurveillance
Systematic observation of subjects
stakeout · monitoring · observation · tailing · shadowing
skip, trace, skipping, tracing, skipped, retrace, traceable, tracer, retracing