I have learned way too much over the past year making every mistake in the book. The biggest was not excessively screening. Many of you lucked out by seeing too many girls that didn't screen well and gave a reference after chancing it, were seeing agency girls and went to them when they were independent and boom independent references and so on and so on . . .
At one point I was okay with seeing a guy if he had a ton of references without giving me his real name, well I lived and learned and now refuse to be that stupid again. We have to KNOW who we are seeing the best that we can, search sexual offender data bases, make sure they are not LE and that we are not related or know each other well in real life. Any Joe shmo can send a ton of information on someone that may not be them so the copy of the drivers license connects the information to the face.
The tougher you are on your screening the less problems and problem clients you run into. I'd also advise to the new guys never to give that info out to a random provider, make sure you have researched their legitimacy first. Chances are if this woman regularly takes the information of men and maintains a steller rep, the information is in good hands.
Just scan it on your printer and send it. My scanner/printer/copier cost 40 bucks at k-mart and I figure if you can't spend that on a scanner then you're in the wrong hobby hehe. Problem solved