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I'm Mike Lort, I am a private professional investigator.
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Let's answer your questions from the internet.
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This is Private Investigator Support.
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Vice, the potential 3392, what is the most interesting case you have ever solved?
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A client of ours was being blackmailed.
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This individual had a, had a mistress and that information would have been devastating to him if his family found out.
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And whilst morally that's wrong, blackmail is a criminal offense too.
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The first thing he wanted was this problem to go away and he was willing to pay for the problem to go away.
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His mistress's computer was compromised and some of the data on that was being printed and shared with the client and left on, on his car.
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We started to put an investigation together.
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We used a combination of forensics on the computer to try and see if we could get leads from the hat.
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We swept the address and the vehicles to make sure there were no listening devices.
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In the end, we identified the blackmailing group.
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A couple of the individuals who were behind it ended up being deported.
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That was a testing time for all of us because it pushed our investigation boundary to its maximum.
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You've got a client on the one hand that's potentially done something that's immoral in terms of the way he lives his personal life and then you've got a criminal activity that's taking place trying to extort and blackmail the client for personal gain.
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JNK 456, when you are hired to find out if a spouse is cheating, what percentage of the time are they actually cheating?
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When there is a niggling doubt with someone, generally there's something going on.
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In order for someone to make that decision to hire an investigator, there's got to be some type of issue, breach, untrust that's happened.
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More are actually cheating than not because spouses will do some groundwork themselves internally first and it's pretty even in terms of male, female coming to us in terms of being the client.
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Let's put that figure anywhere between 70 to 75%.
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For the Love of Zero, has anyone caught you investigating them?
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Look, in the private sector, this, this can happen but every professional investigator out there will take every step they can to make sure it doesn't happen.
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Every investigator out there will grade their targets from white to red.
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White being completely unaware right up to the level of awareness of an individual increasing potentially during an investigation.
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If a subject, their awareness increases, you need to then adapt the way you investigate.
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Sometimes it's, it's more risk-free being overt to be covert.
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Everyone's got cameras so it's easier to get a camera out and film rather than try and do something hidden.
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One of the cases many, many years ago had to get some imagery of these individuals that shouldn't be together.
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And it was another infidelity case and we managed to set up a reporting type scenario with a camera on a tripod, someone holding a microphone allegedly from a reporting outlet in Leicester Square and just asking tourism comments.
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We approached the target who's with the third party and passed the microphone between the two, engaged in conversation and asked, "How long have you been together?"
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And all of that was documented overtly on a camera.
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That's an example.
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And sometimes overt to be covert.
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This one's from It's VSSN Random 4 AM Thoughts.
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What are the things private investigators can and cannot do?
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Things investigators can do: they can put surveillance teams on the ground to follow someone, they can run background reports and check for bugs, tracking devices.
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An investigator cannot go into someone's information in their phones or anything like that.
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Private sector investigator cannot hack into emails.
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That's illegal.
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Go into people's bank accounts, anything that's considered private data, an investigator cannot do that.
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This is from Factoid 80.
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You're letting people in on the game.
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Hiring a PI is essential before getting married.
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I always recommend a deep background check and a fiance test which is to let her know you're traveling for a weekend and on that weekend, hire a PI for surveillance.
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You don't want to try and test your fiance.
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Where's the trust if there's the test?
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If you want to try and find out the truth, you hire an investigator but it needs to be proportionate.
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From Peion Lily, you're a private investigator, detective.
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What is your outfit and weapon?
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Most investigators will carry some type of change of clothing or items that can change their appearance pretty quick, glasses, hats, scarf.
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During COVID, masks were issued everywhere and it was a godsend for all the surveillance operatives throughout the world.
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I always tell my investigation team it's easier to dress down than dress up.
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If you are smartly dressed, you can always take your tie off, take your jacket off, put a jumper on, put a beanie hat on.
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In the back of any surveillance vehicle in the boot, you'll see a variety of different types of clothing if you want to change your appearance completely.
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Never forget your shoes because that's one item that investigators can miss in changing.
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This is from Ask Reddit.
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Private investigators have read it, what is the most bizarre task you've been assigned to do?
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I was contacted a while ago by a celebrity photographer.
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This photographer was in a relationship with someone from a band.
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The person in the band was lent a very famous guitar.
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The objective was to trace the guitar and bring it back to its rightful owner.
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The individual declined all knowledge of it but we had proof otherwise.
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I had to travel back to the US with this famous guitar on my back with some of the stewardesses thinking I was part of some famous band.
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Bizarre case from Red Seymour.
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What made you decide to become a private investigator?
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What was your most fun case?
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I started on the ground doing inquiries, field work, surveillance work.
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It just intrigued me.
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This industry has consumed me actually.
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It was something I'm super interested in and I've always have been intuitive and understanding and uncovering facts and the diversity in terms of, in terms of what a private investigator actually does.
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A fun case that we worked on was a few years ago, a family office where the female was suspected of having an affair with her ski instructor.
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It was in a very popular ski resort where we needed to put a ski team together, where and how would the target behave inappropriately during the time she's with the instructor?
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I tell you, when that task hit the office, most investigators put their hand up for that because it was a good few days skiing and you had to be quite competent.
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She was pretty good, so the end result of the ski task was no, there was no infidelity going on, probably paranoid from the client's point of view.
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For the surveillance team, it was a great few days skiing, paid for, so I think they enjoyed that.
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This is from Aggressive 8587.
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How are private investigators legal?
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Lots of countries around the world, investigators need to be licensed in order to practice.
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In the UK, an established private investigator that's a member of an accredited association, is registered with the ICO as insurance and is DPA checked, is legal to practice.
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You need to make sure what you're doing is proportionate and necessary because when you present your reports to the court, you can't say you've followed someone for a year in a way to try and catch someone out on that one occasion.
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This one is from Reddit or Forget It.
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Private detectives of Reddit, what's your "Oh shit!" moment where you had to stop watching and either step in or call the police?
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My biggest "Oh shit!" moment was we were working a case years ago where there was internal fraud.
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It was for a bathroom suppliers company and there was lots of items going missing.
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We knew where goods were going missing from, let's say this is our client's warehouse.
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We had an agent parked in a car park at this position here.
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Now, unbeknown to us is the team were taking goods out here in the vans and using the same car park here to move them into different vehicles.
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He was actually blocked in by the vans when they were moving goods from the client's van into their own van.
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If you do get spotted, it will ruin the operation that we've been working on for weeks and weeks.
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You can't drive himself out of there.
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The other agent cannot walk up to the vehicle and drive him out.
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We just have to monitor the situation and let it run its course.
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The agent was fine, he stayed in the vehicle until the vans moved on and that vehicle was never used in the surveillance again.
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This one's from Gray Blue Eyes.
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What are your must-have apps, sites that are always available at your fingertips?
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In this day and age, any type of communication tool.
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It'd be very difficult to operate as an investigator without being able to capture and communicate.
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Do I have a discrete car?
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Yes.
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Vehicles will be nondescript and there's a lot of planning that goes into a type of surveillance vehicle that's used before it's out on the ground with hidden audio and video devices.
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Technology has changed dramatically since I first started.
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We were carrying backpacks with battery packs and big FileFX cameras back in the day.
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Many people associate investigators with binoculars, for example, with technology.
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And now there are monoculars which is small, single-handed, that's digital, that can capture and record huge distances and transmit that information live.
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This is from Puges.
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What would actually happen if you hired two private investigators to follow each other?
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I think that's an impossible scenario and just think about it.
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Investigator A goes and sits outside Investigator B's house waiting for him to come out.
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And Investigator B goes and sits outside Investigator A's house waiting for him to come out.
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So if they're following each other then they're going to be both watching empty houses.
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Question from Milgroup 2001.
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What's the hardest thing about being a private investigator?
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I suppose the hardest thing about being a private investigator is you don't switch off.
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It consumes you.
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It consumes your time, your thoughts, your processes.
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It's a way of life rather than just a job.
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But a case that come and hit the desk, it was working for a financial institution in the city and our objective was to find the address that this individual is living at.
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After a meeting, I, I remember calling my wife as many years ago saying, "I'll be home for dinner."
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The guy left, went into St Pancras train station, got on the Eurostar, ended up in Paris for the weekend.
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So my two or three hour surveillance turned into a whole weekend.
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If you are not fully committed to a way of life as an investigator, then maybe this career isn't for you.
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This question is from JW.
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What do real private detectives usually investigate?
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It could be consented cases like pre-employment checks, so screening staff for positions in work, right up to fraud, supporting lawyers for court cases, gathering information and evidence that can be used for decision making, brand protection, investigating fakes that are out there for some of the brands, matrimonial, where you believe a partner is being unfaithful or cohabitation where a partner has moved into another address with someone else, proving that for a particular reason.
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But what investigators or private detectives do, do, is uncover the truth.
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The Risky Marie, what possessed y'all to hire a private investigator?
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Like, how does this even work?
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We're a distress purchase.
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People don't book us like you book a holiday.
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People come to us when they have a problem and they need to either find the truth or find the facts or connect the dots.
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We cover a wide range of services from tracing individuals right up to, you know, corporate broad and intelligence gathering.
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But private clients, they come to us commonly when they've either been scammed, there's an internal family office issue or there's a breach of trust, just an unfaithful partner, a family member that's, that's gone astray.
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This is from Candy Emergency.
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How can I tell if my car has a tracking device?
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In order to conclusively tell, you need to do what's called a technical sweep.
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You'd have a skilled technical investigator with the right equipment that will scan the vehicle, do two types of searches: a physical search going underneath in the engine, in, in any other compartment and then the vehicle scanned with some equipment that will look for emitting signals or frequency or what have you to try and identify whether there are tracking devices on that car.
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Todd or 56032, what do you think is the most critical skill for a private investigator to have?
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Leaving no layer unturned, so being intuitive and drilling down into the detail and the data, questioning everything that you find and you see and verifying all of the sources of information that you uncover.
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Having that out-of-the-box thinking mentality to tackle cases and analyze a case in more than one dimension makes you a complete investigator.
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This one's from Red's Playpen.
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How the hell do I hire a private investigator?
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Good question.
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This depending on the country you're in, you look at your local or your state national or international association.
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In the UK, there's the Association of British Investigators.
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Check on that website for an accredited and approved investigator.
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Globally, a good starting point would be the World Association of Detectives.
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There's nearly a thousand investigators on that platform in more than 80 countries around the world.
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This one is from Auth Nerd 911.
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Thinking of becoming a private investigator, thoughts?
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Well, my first answer to that, I think it's a great idea.
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I would align yourself with some professional associations like the Association of British Investigators.
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I'd look for potential internships and apprenticeships for entry level investigator to give you an insight into the world of private investigating and whether it's for you.
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This one's from Avocado of Destiny.
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What general tips would you give to people to lower their profile a little bit and be a bit harder to trace, thinking along the lines of stalkers or identity thieves?
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From a picture you can find out so much about someone without knowing them.
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Lots of doting parents posting pictures of their kids outside their school with the school badge or the school sign behind.
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Very easy for, you know, nefarious characters online to understand which schools your kids are going to.
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And just your private data, home addresses, personal data.
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We've got two reputations now.
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Everyone has.
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You've got your personal reputation in terms of the reputation you have with your friends, colleagues and family.
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You've also got your online reputation too.
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You need to protect both.
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This is from Elin FM.
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What is the most shocking case you've worked on?
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The client was a banker from the Middle East.
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He wanted to try and locate his child and his estranged wife was going for a very messy divorce.
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Thought they were still somewhere in, in the Middle East.
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We ended up tracing them to somewhere in the US and the client was adamant that it couldn't be, so we sent some field investigators out there, took some images, showed him and he was gobsmacked, he couldn't believe it.
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We were able to prove that the mother forged his signature on the consent to leave.
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In the end, the father actually received custody of his, of his child.
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From Sangus Fro, who is the better detective, Sherlock Holmes or Benoit Blanc?
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Mr. Blanc is more suited currently.
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However, if we were to bring Mr. Blanc back in Sherlock Holmes times then Sherlock Holmes would win hands down.
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Modern investigators sometimes can be a bit lazy.
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Some Sherlock Holmes techniques getting out there, speaking to people, doing the covert questioning, statements, that type of field work to supplement whatever you've found through all of your data sets can be overlooked by some modern detectives.
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Doing the field work in combination with what you can do at your fingertips makes you a complete investigator.
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So we've got a question here from Shoppes.
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Question for private investigators, what's a typical day look like for you?
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There's no two typical days that are the same because you do such a wide range of investigating.
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It could be desktop research, it could be interrogating databases, it could be looking at open-source intelligence, that's information that's freely available on the net or it could be getting out on the field asking questions, maybe doing some covert surveillance, interviewing, door knocking neighbors, just really does depend on the case that you've been assigned to and the objective.
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I hope I've answered all of your questions from the internet.
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Thank you for listening and I hope you enjoyed it.