The bar scene might never be the same. The once reliable lies you told to inflate your ego can now be checked out with the touch of an iPhone icon.

A new application for the smartphone allows users to instantly run a background check on anyone using a name or an e-mail address. Called the Background Check App, thousands of users have helped the program quickly become one of the phone’s top downloads.

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