You just enjoyed a nice dinner out with a few friends and are ready to pay. You reach in and notice you forgot your credit card. Your friend pays for dinner, but instead of waiting to pay him back you easily whip out your phone, head to your Venmo app, and send your friend money […]
Digital evidence has become more and more relevant for most civil and criminal investigations. Developing your OSINT skills is ongoing and understanding where it is all headed is just as important. It is an ever changing area, with new social media platforms sprouting up all the time. When conducting online research on a person of […]
Is the online personality of a person different from their in person personality? I recently watched a documentary on Netflix called, “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel.” The docuseries is about a Canadian college student, Elisa Lam, who was a guest of the hotel in 2013. She disappeared and was missing for a […]
Conducting online discovery research on a person or business of interest should always begin with a strategy. Using critical thinking and formatting your search around your case will save you a great deal of time and effort. When beginning research on a subject you want to start by capturing the data that you know to […]
In today’s digital world, employee fraud and theft is up and can cost a company a lot of lost revenue. This is an area in which a Private Investigator can be be very valuable to a loss prevention department. A recent article in the The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported two employee fraud investigations. “Home Depot just […]