I've never tried it to be honest...

I've definitely had friends ask me to help them track details about guys for them. In the age of Facebook, Mypsace, blogs, and google, it's much harder to get away with scams of any kind.

I wouldn't be surprised if this causes a social shift as today's generation of kids grows up realizing that anything they do is potential fodder for blogging, facebook, and the like. Who knows, it might even encourage people to be better to eachother