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Gaining Information in a Divorce Illegally

Apps regularly pop up in divorce cases, experts say. Over 80% of U.S. divorce attorneys say they’ve seen a rise in the number of cases using social networking, according to the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML) Sometimes it’s not the social networking sites themselves, but how they are accessed to gain information. With that said, let’s remember, there are legal apps that are helpful when you have an aging parent, a teenage child, or apps that allow family members to see every phone’s location. These apps are helpful since everyone is aware they are installed on the phone. But what if there is an app on your phone that does more than show your location? What if the app allows someone else to see [...]

Bugged and Confused

Your words are repeated, your private communications are known, your strategy is exposed, your business has suffered and you just cannot say for sure how this was done. It can happen and has happened to many private individuals and businesses. There is information that needs to be shared between business partners, attorney and clients that need to remain in strictest confidence and yet, somehow somebody or a competitor knows exactly what is going on. We first want to say “mole”, but we know the individuals involved would also experience a loss if the information was shared to the outside world, so how is the information being shared? Cellular devices are common practice. We use them for various types of communication. Telephonically, emails, texts and we [...]

I’d Like to Phone a Friend

Friends can be a neighbor, a kid you grew up with since grade school, a co-worker, a boss and your spouse. Nobody ever thinks that a private investigator could be a friend, but in many of our cases that we work, in the end, we have acted on the same level as a friendship. We put our Client’s first, we work on their behalf, we do what is right and we stay within the law to make sure anything we find can be used in the court of law. We don’t tell our Clients we are their friends, but we act upon the same basis. by Friends.com. If you look in the dictionary it will tell you that the definition of friendship is a state of being [...]

No One is Ever Going to Hear My Conversations, Or are They?

Social Media: There are so many ways to communicate with social media, but if you break it down, your communication is either by word of mouth or the written word (picture). When you verbally communicate, your message is delivered and heard, then responded to or ignored, but you know right then whether your point was taken or rejected. In the written form, usually by e-mail, text, or some form of social media, it is derived from a device, a cell phone, a tablet, a laptop or a tower computer. Your personal information is stored in these devices, and sometimes the cloud…and no matter what you write, text, post somebody somewhere that you don’t even know may have access it. That’s the chance we take when [...]

Don’t Do Nothing, Act Upon your Beliefs, you Could be Saving someone’s Life

John knew he needed help. He had given his son, Thomas every opportunity to turn his life around and yet his son continued on the same downward spiral and then blamed his father for his many failures. They say a parent is responsible for their children’s actions and that good parenting produces good children. That is no always the case. We tell our Clients that children learn by example, but some kids just never apply themselves and nothing a parent can do to encourage them to be more successful or responsible makes a difference. And this is exactly how our case began with John. Thomas had some shady friends, although he had been childhood friends with them, he chose to maintain the friendship when he [...]

Dating through Social Media

In life it isn’t easy meeting the right person, the woman/man of your dreams in a chance meeting. The one individual in the whole world that you feel completes you, gets you, loves you, and puts you above everything else. The last face you see before you go to bed at night and the last voice you hear before you fall asleep. The internet and social media brings these wants closer to you than you would have even been able to do on your own. Once click and you see that perfect person posted on your screen with all the features you ever wanted, the smile that lights up your face, the eyes, the hair and finally the body; all are perfection, or are they? [...]

Teenagers and Cell Phones

Here at , we pay attention. We listen and learn and share our expertise and case example outcomes with our Clients. It usually starts out like “I bet you haven’t heard this before” and in most cases we have. What we haven’t heard are the thought patterns and real life situations with a teenager. Therefore, we asked an 18 year old female granddaughter of one of our employees the importance of her phone, what she does with it, how she sets up her passwords and who she shares with. This is what she told us: The life of an 18 year old is so drama filled and complexly effortless now that everyone has a cell phone. Just one touch of a button and you’ve blocked [...]

Investments aren’t always Investments

We have all thought “What would have happened….if”, and never gave it a second thought. But in our business, we never wonder “what would have happened” we think “what did happen”. We had a Client whose best friend recommended an unusual investment opportunity to her. She had dabbled in gold dust outside of the US, specifically in Africa with a small Investment Company out of California and had some pretty good returns. She had been bragging about getting a 35% return on her initial investment of $20,000 and then a 20% return on her second investment as well. When she received her second check, she was asked if she knew anybody who would be interested in turning their dollars into gold, and of course she [...]

Is Communication Really Safe

In today’s world, there are so many avenues of communication. We think face to face is the safest, as there are no footprints of the words we speak. We fax because there isn’t a written line of communication, we talk on our cell phones without ever thinking someone else is listening. We email without fear because it’s all done electronically. We text our family, our work, our friends, even businesses private information we think is safe and only that person is receiving it. Once we hang up, hit send or end button we walk away thinking our communication is safe and secure. That safe and secure world is behind us, we are in the 21st century and technology improves every day. The same technology that [...]

Insurance Beneficiaries and Forensics Data Recovery

Insurance Companies and Law Firms deal with very controversial subject matters. And usually when we are asked to conduct an Investigation for an Insurance Company, we can be assured there is an attorney on the other side. We were contacted by a Major Insurance Company regarding an apparent suicide, the coroner and the police department both stated the insured committed suicide, but yet the family couldn’t believe he would take his own life. There was just too much, they felt, he had to live for. There was no suicide note, no indication that he was depressed and he was supposed to announce his engagement in less than a week. He and his girlfriend had recently returned from a Caribbean vacation and become engaged during the [...]