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The Business of Finding Business Assets Business assets can be held in many ways—and buried in even more ways. Among the many creative money management methods available, business assets can be legally held in a foreign country, as a corporate shell, or a personal trust. Assets can be liquid (cash or easily converted to cash), intangible (hard to find or evaluate), or hidden (tucked way not to be found). Typical assets controlled by a business include: Real Property; Personal Property; Investments and Trusts (Financial Assets); Intellectual Property; and Subsidiaries/Spin-offs. For those assets that can be located, a discussion of some practical search procedures follows. Each asset type is examined, with examples of how to search for and investigate them. what you pay for. -
Locate Bank Accounts Legally
Bank accounts for sale? Every day we receive advertising that offers to find someone’s bank account information—completely legally and FCRA compliant. It's still hard to figured out how this is possible to accomplish. Because it isn't. So what ways are legal, ethical and will get results? -
Professional's Review of Public Record Aggregators
The collection of available public record aggregators span a range—from quick, no-nonsense, pay-as-you-go websites to high-end subscription services (that require compliance with Federal laws). The services reviewed here are useful for the investigative industry, including private investigators, bounty hunters, collection agents, law enforcement, fraud, and compliance research. For any of these specialists, choosing where to invest your database budget is a serious consideration: the results of these services have a direct impact on your cases—and you get what you pay for. -
Searching For Videos & Images On The Internet
In this issue of Data2Know.com, we have guest contributing author and OsInt officer Janiece Mondale providing us with two articles of her Open source news content. Of the many articles Ms. Mondale has authored, these pieces collate best practices for online intelligence professionals to conquer the overwhelming amount of content on the internet.
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Reddit It Is
We are dedicating a full article to reddit to make security and investigative professionals aware of this platform. Reddit is useful for locating the details of a situation, the comments of a user, or the “truth” of events. Reddit may begin as a sometimes resource in your digital investigator’s toolbelt, but it will likely turn into a standard search tool on all your future cases. -
Snapchat by the Numbers
After an introduction on Snapchat, in this issue we present a guest article by Edward J. Ajaeb discussing how investigators can use the Snapchat tool snap Map. -
Analysis Reporting
This article covers the importance of report writing, and explains how it is an underappreciated but critical aspect of investigations. It is the art of communicating what we find. -
Unique Social Search Tools
This article will highlight some of those favorite OSINT tool websites, plus cover some new sites that have yet to be reported on. -
Hunting Online: Capture and Awareness
This article will highlight how an investigator can hunt through the mass of data available to key in on the critical pieces they need for their investigation. -
Twitter Bots & Stolen Identities
Every day, thousands of real identities are stolen and sold as reconstructed trolls that like and retweet content daily—for the cost of a few pennies. This special issue explores how online bots are used to steal identities and examines the impact of social media bots in politics, celebrity lives, and commerce. -
The Dark Web: A Primer
This article covers what the dark web is, how it compares the surface web and the deep web, and how to look at dark web material carefully.
