The Department of Homeland Security wants to be your Facebook friend!
Crossing the border into the United States is notoriously difficult, especially since 9/11. Every year, it seems like there is more information the Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Patrol wants to know about citizens and non-citizens upon arrival....
Pokemon GO Scams to Lookout For
Gamers of all ages have taken to the streets in search of Pokemon. The new app game, Pokemon GO, became an overnight sensation just earlier this month. Regardless how you feel about Pokemon GO, there are several target points scammers have quickly honed in on. Pokemon...
Is Banned Content the New Banned Books?
July 24th marked the annual celebration of National Private Investigator Day!!Launched over two decades ago by PI Magazine's publisher Bob Mackowiak, the holiday was originally set in October and quickly forgotten. In 2014, National Private Investigator Day was...
Love Scam: Plenty of Catfish in the Dating Pool
Online dating has gone mainstream. Everyone knows at least a handful of couples who met online. However, with more and more people flocking to dating websites to meet their match, so are con artists. Scammers create false social media and online dating profiles to...
Lawyers – Increase Your Bottom Line by Doing Less Work
Lawyers needn't turn clients away because there aren't enough hours in the day to investigate and represent every case to the highest quality. The most efficient and successful law firms hire highly skilled private investigators as part of the litigation team. Private...
Smartphones Lost and Found: How to Protect Your Identity and Your Data
Your smartphone knows too much. In your smartphone - and in its SIM card - there is a wealth of personal information about you and your friends and family. Everything a con artist needs to steal your identity and impersonate you via text, call, or email is right...
Will Google Respect Your Right to Be Forgotten?
Try as we might, we cannot always control the content about us that gets uploaded to the internet. From our own mistakes to blackmail to a poor judgment call by a friend or relative, content exposing us made public on the internet extends beyond the right to privacy....
Seniors! Protect Yourself Against Con Artists
Senior citizens are the most common prey for scammers and con artists. Email scams, phone scams, and scams that play on seniors being unfamiliar with new technology that gets introduced into our daily lives rely on seniors not being able to protect themselves and use...
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