Tips for Conducting a Social Media Investigation
While hiring a professional to locate someone or dig up information will always net the best results, there are some actions that even a novice can use to get the ball rolling on a social media investigation before having to bring in an expert. Let’s take a look.
Corporate Investigations: How to Locate Former Employees
Locating a former employee can be challenging. These tips can provide some direction prior to hiring a private investigator for a formal corporate investigation.
5 Ways a Private Investigator Can Help with Your Child Custody Case
Child custody cases can be extremely difficult to prove. A private investigator can help you gather the evidence you need to keep your children safe, healthy and happy.
Vetting Upper Managment: Do’s and Dont’s
Vetting is a process most often spoken of when it comes to political candidates. A potential candidate can go through extreme forms of background checks and research into anything from family matters to finances. Because they are backed by political parties and face media scrutiny, this process remains essential and goes unchallenged. Why then do […]
Private Investigation: A History
Private investigators, eyes, and detectives may seem like a profession that’s been around forever, but this is not the case. Perhaps because their famous fictional counterparts have been around nearly as long, but in reality private detectives have been in use for around 150 years. First documented in France in the first half of the […]
Private Investigators: Who do you think they are?
Myth-busting “Private Eyes” When one conjures up images of a private investigator or “PI”, what are some commonalities? Perhaps a long tan coat, a notebook, mustache, and of course your handy dandy – magnifying glass? Detective stories have long altered the perception of what private investigators do so here now lies some basic PI 101 […]
Cyber Hackers, Private Information, and the Private Investigators Who Catch Them
Today’s digital age has allowed people to be more interconnected, share more information, and stretched our capabilities for innovation in ways dystopian literature couldn’t even have imagined. You think Aldous Huxley could have predicted the advent of Yelping the best tasting empanadas within a ten mile radius? (Okay fine he probably did). Well, as […]
Attorney Need for an Asset Search
The court has made a decision, but the most difficult part of a small claims case is far from over. Even if the court rules in a client’s favor, there is no guaranteeing that the judgment will be paid. Typically the court’s participation is done once the case is over and the creditor is on […]
Corporate Espionage Against Nonprofits
Currently, the corporations that have the most information about their rival companies and organizations are the ones that have a financial and competitive edge over their competition. When this data is collected legally, it is known as competitive intelligence. However, many big businesses are opting for more unethical and unlawful ways of gathering information, which […]
What are the different reasons to hire a private investigator to conduct background searches?
In 2009, Adriano Sotomayor was on the hunt for money and an unsuspecting individual. Sotomayor was a con artist, and found his mark in the nuns of the Sisters of the Rosary of Fatima convent in New Jersey. He called one of the nuns and told her that he was a New Jersey priest and […]