EMAIL AND SOCIAL MEDIA EVIDENCE

Social media investigations are one of the most useful tools Private Investigators use on a daily basis. They are, in essence, exactly what they sound like, we explore the internet for any and all trace of the individual until we have a pretty good insight into the type of person they are and the type of activities they participate in.

The Barry Private Investigators like to define our social media investigations as gathering and evaluating a person’s Internet trace to give our investigators and/or client a broad insight into the person’s activities, background and pertinent characteristics.

We gather intelligence from social media sites. The popularity of all social sites and people’s desire to share and post things actively every day revealing a lot about their lives and activities – makes the social media a gold mine of information. Knowing where to search and how to cross-reference social media information is crucial for putting the puzzle pieces together. Whether you’re a professional who wants to enhance the social media research of a person or an individual who wants to learn more about someone’s online presence, our deep reports are the right choice for you.

REASONS YOU NEED THE BARRY INVESTIGATOR'S TO DO SOCIAL MEDIA INVESTIGATION

The Barry has investigators that specialize in social media investigations and have the required experience. With our experience we are able to conduct a wide variety of searches than the average private investigation company.

Sure you can plug in a name into google, anyone can. However; that does not mean that your search will bring up the correct person you are searching for. When conducting social media investigations, we are able to use certain techniques and search engines to locate a profile for our client. Many times, we are able to pull information from private accounts. 

Need we say any more reasons for a social media investigation?

Living in an era where almost everything and everyone revolves around social media it makes our social media investigation much easier to do. From Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, LinkedIn, to all other social media platforms that the younger and older generation are using its very easy to see what exactly is going on in someone’s life. A Social Media Investigation will reveal details into someone’s life through their social media and it will tell you a lot about the person, probably more than you were originally thinking our investigation would.

With the constant need to share what we are eating, where we’re at, and with who we are with, it’s easy to keep up with what an individual is doing at most times throughout the day. Between sharing photos from family vacations, events, nights out, to whichever problem you feel the need to over share with some of your closest friends, family, and random strangers who added you, we see it all.

During a social media investigation we tend to see a lot of people voicing their opinions, sharing their beliefs, putting their two sense into a topic, even getting into arguments on their or someone else’s comment section. We see who you’re friends with, who you spend the most time with, who your significant other is and which member of the family you are closest with. We see it all through our in-depth social media investigations.

  APPLICATION OF SOCIAL MEDIA INVESTIGATIONS

When conducting a social media investigation for insurance claims purposes all of those things people share on their social media accounts helps. Finding a video of someone claiming something crazy happened to them that simply isn’t true is what we do best. We tend to find videos or images of “injured” individuals that are sky-diving, ziplining, going out to clubs and even breaking it down on the floor; all that of this is beneficial to an investigation.

Another use of a social media investigation would be on a fatality case to show whether the fatality was an accident, or it was intentional. We also use these investigations to identify destructive behavior in a subject’s past that may offer insight into their frame of mind. You can gain a lot of insight and information on a person through a social media investigation. Social media investigations on employees who are claiming they may have been injured can show you if they are being fraudulent to get out of having to work, or if they truly are injured.

When doing a background check on someone you are considering for employment the position, it’s important to do a social media investigation. With this information, it can help you decide if the candidate is suitable for the position. This could be conducted in the beginning or the hiring process, or towards the end depending on their resume, qualifications and interview. Social media investigations during a background check are incredibly common with the amount that people share on social media.

Some things we may find while doing a social media investigation that could disqualify a person from a position include: derogatory comments, comments against morals of the company, images of drugs or alcohol, etc. Also, if the company see’s bullying or harassment on the persons social media it can disqualify the person.

Additionally, background checks on current employees are incredibly common. Social media investigations are considered part of a background check. We see it all the time; an issue takes place at a company; and the employee decides to discuss the matter on their personal Facebook page. A social media investigation on your employees, especially after an incident in which a public statement hasn’t been officially made, will show you which employee is spreading classified company information.

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Although, social media investigations are a great way to see what kind of person you are dealing with during a background check, there are many more benefits to conducting a social media investigation. Another reason people would do a social media investigation is for surveillance purposes.

Before we send out a field investigator, we will conduct a quick social media investigation to verify what the individual looks like and provide our investigator with their image, so our investigators know who they are looking for once they arrive for surveillance. Additionally, with social media investigations it helps narrow it down where the person is working. Many individuals will tag their location at their place of employment which helps our investigators narrow down the best times to conduct surveillance. 

There are endless reasons to do a social media investigation. Whether it’s for personal use, insurance claims purposes, surveillance or background checks; they are incredibly useful. Like everyone always says, be careful what you post, you never know who is watching; or maybe that’s just private investigators! 

Social media investigations can be conducted throughout the 50 states in the United States. Contact Us Right Now.       

 EMAIL INVESTIGATIONS

An email investigation is precisely what the name implies: an investigation into someone's email, to discover who is using it and where that person is.

Email Investigation is the study of source and content of email as evidence to identify the actual sender and recipient of a message along with some other information such as date/time of transmission and intention of sender. It involves investigating metadata, port scanning as well as keyword searching. What you can discover via investigating an email account can be boiled down to a few categories 

Internet profiling: An investigator who is specialized in internet profiling, will be able to use an online search through myriad engines to attempt to uncover any online activity that can be associated with a specific email. Social networking sites and online message boards are another place an investigator will typically check, and through all of these combined, the investigator will begin to develop a personality profile of the name attached to the address.

Online infidelity: Online infidelity investigation is a specific investigation that takes an email address and locates all the online dating service memberships associated with that email.

Identification: This type of investigation occurs when a client provides an email address and would like to have identified the real name, address, and/or phone number of the person who is using the address. These sorts of investigations usually occur when a person has been harassed or threatened online.

Locate: A location-based investigation is the sort of investigation you want when you already have a name to associate with an email address but require further information - usually, an address to match the name to. These are especially useful in locating teenage runaways or non-custodial parental kidnappings.

Online risk assessment: A bit of a reversal from everything mentioned above, assessment of online risk occurs when a client wants to protect their own cyber-safety and seeks protection against, say, identity theft. Thus, you allow a private investigator to do a web search and see what they are able to discover about you. The results can often be shocking!

These are simply a few of the more common types of online investigations, and as you can appreciate, there is a great breadth of information that can be sought out even if all that is provided is an email address! In many instances, an individual feels threatened because the email they received was an anonymous one from Yahoo!, Gmail, Hotmail, etc. “ Always bear in mind that anything online can be traced and an email address can lead to its owner.”

If you think you may need an email investigation be sure that the investigator you hire is recognized as an expert in this field.

The Barry Investigations has best IT Security talents in the world, our investigators will follow all the set standards and ethics to come out with real truth. Contact Us today! We are always available to attend to all your services.