Identity theft is rampant all over the world. More and more people are finding suspicious charges on their credit cards and receiving bills for loans they never applied for. Some people do not know they have been victims of identity theft until they check their… Read More »Identity Theft
With one in 10 adults admitting to having made a fraudulent claim* on a general insurance policy, such as home or motor insurance, companies are quite rightly are on their guard. *(Source: ABI (Association of British Insurers) May 2007) When I saw this documentary on… Read More »Scams, Fiddles and The Insurance Investigator
Everybody has seen at least one movie or television show involving a private investigator. Usually, on these shows or in these movies, the private investigator works in a shady office and spends his (or her) day crouching in the bushes next to some seedy motel… Read More »What is a Private Investigator?
There I was parked in a quiet cul-de-sac watching a building across the other side of a T-junction. My colleague is inside a surveillance van parked very close to the buildings front door. I am there purely as backup and to coordinate the job. The… Read More »The surveillance van, the old couple and the police.
There I was getting ready for a nice Friday night when the telephone rings at five to five in the afternoon. A barrister, no less on the other end of the phone. Wants to know if it’s possible to serve a court order on-the-hurry tonight,… Read More »Prohibited Steps Order on a Friday night
It’s Christmas day here and I Am writing this blog from my home office. As I watch TV and catch up on some of my emails, I wondered why there’s more surveillance work in the months of September to December than at any other time?… Read More »How to follow someone from afar
That was the title of someone’s blog and the tracker they recommended was the new MINI GPS Tracker but it has certain limitations. It’s essentially a data logger that is it records the location and only after you retrieve the logger do you get the… Read More »How to track a car
I was thinking this week about the role of the Process Server. Are we just professionals or just a glorified courier service? I mean, some process servers are out there selling themselves for a pittance. In today’s climate with licensing just around the corner and… Read More »Process Server or just glorified courier?
There are many views on this subject and a lot of PI’s and Lawyers who I have talked to have no real idea what the legal situation is. There is even a thread on this subject over on e-LEGAL | Gathering and i promised you… Read More »GPS Trackers: Are they legal?
Retail crime in the UK is estimated at well above the £½ billion mark per year. 80% of retail fraud is at point of sale, i.e. till fraud. Retail businesses lose an average of 1% to retail fraud each year. Research shows that 25% of… Read More »What is Retail Fraud?