Tag: research
6 Simple Online Investigation Techniques for Private Investigators
Following article is going to cover certain basic investigative techniques such as discovering a person’s online aliases, digging deeper into leads (such as profile images), leveraging Google to uncover files and setting up a system to get real time notifications about your target’s online activity. 1) Dictionary mining This method is used by spam bots [...]
March 2011 American PI Podcast Features John Hoda on Missing Heir Research; Forensic, Geneology, and Investigative Skills
The March 2011 podcast of The American Private Investigator with your host, Paul Jaeb, opens with the API News Update with Mike McIntee. Next is an interview with John Hoda of Missing Heirs Finders about identifying opportunities, agency development and the uniqueness of missing heir research due to the need to combine forensic genealogy skills, [...]
Background Investigation or “Reputational Due Diligence Model?”
An article in the last edition of a popular print-based magazine for private investigators called, “Evolving Background Checks into a Reputational Due Diligence Model,” while severely over-titled, is a fairly comprehensive outline of how to start a standard background investigation. The very idea of trying to market something called a Reputational Due Diligence Model to [...]
Data, Knowledge and the Private Investigator
I’m a reader. I tear through a magazine in a couple of hours, reading, consuming, and drinking in information. I like to discover what others are thinking, what topics are hot, what’s happening in the greater world…outside of our little burg of Nashville. I surf industry related blogs. I subscribe to several business related magazines. [...]
Private Investigator Databases: What the GLBA Really Means to You
In the mid-1990s to early 2000’s, we entered an era when the “Information Age” precipitated a shift in the private investigations industry then made up largely of “Gumshoe Investigators” to one whose population was being replaced by a new age of “Internet Investigators.” Database companies were just starting to come online and I remember gaining [...]
ISPLA Releases First National Legislation Tracking Website for Investigators
Investigative & Security Professionals for Legislative Action (ISPLA) is proud to announce that their exclusive, first of its kind, and real-time state and federal legislative tracking system for the investigative and security professions is now open online to all for a limited time. To view and use this great system, go to Legislation Tracking This [...]
Buried Deep in Data? New Search Options Can Help
It could have happened to any insurance company at any time. Joe, not his real name, claimed he was disabled after a one-car accident. No one else was involved. Who’s to say he was wrong? Joe had the paperwork. His story sounded real. But that’s when Michele Stuart got involved. She’s been a private investigator [...]
Shortcomings of Technology: The Corruption of Legal Research
By: Scott P. Stolley, Esq. “A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.” —Thomas Jefferson I have this dream—a nightmare really—like one of those dreams where you’re trapped in an embarrassing or compromising position. In this dream, I walk into my law firm’s library, and the shelves and books are gone. Instead, [...]
