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6 03, 2026

Probate Fraud Investigation: How to Detect Estate Fraud and Protect Assets

By |2026-03-06T15:22:00-04:00March 6th, 2026|Private Investigator|Comments Off on Probate Fraud Investigation: How to Detect Estate Fraud and Protect Assets

When someone dies, the people closest to them are supposed to protect what they left behind. Too often, that's not what happens. As a licensed private investigative agency, we conduct probate fraud investigations on a regular basis. Dozens of cases cross our desk every week. And in nearly every situation, the same story plays out: someone close to the estate sees money that's about to be distributed and decides they want more of it [...]

2 06, 2025

When Relatives Steal From Their Own Family

By |2025-07-31T07:36:51-04:00June 2nd, 2025|Asset Search, Florida, Private Investigator|Comments Off on When Relatives Steal From Their Own Family

Fraud in Family Law Cases We are seeing more and more of these family law fraud cases. A lot of times with what's called estate fraud or inheritance theft, what happens is somebody dies in a family and that person who's deceased has assets that need to be distributed, and one family member will decide they want to take more than their fair share. Discovery of Fraud And many times, because the process of [...]

15 05, 2025

How To Get Money Back From A Scam, From Many Sources

By |2025-06-20T21:53:21-04:00May 15th, 2025|Private Investigator|Comments Off on How To Get Money Back From A Scam, From Many Sources

Third-Party Liability in Action See, now this is what we've been talking about with third-party liability. Here's a great story about a scammer, a Ponzi schemer who took $300 million from victims in Canada. What happened was the victims discovered that a bank had made this easier for the scammer. Now, the bank allegedly wasn't part of the scam directly, but many times when a scammer, Ponzi schemer, or online fraud perpetrator does something [...]

15 05, 2025

Stolen Inheritance And Asset Fraud

By |2025-06-20T22:11:35-04:00May 15th, 2025|Asset Search, Private Investigator|Comments Off on Stolen Inheritance And Asset Fraud

What Is Inheritance Hijacking? So, what is inheritance hijacking? Well, it's exactly what it sounds like. If you have somebody in your life that's close to you maybe a relative who has become deceased, or even if they're not deceased, maybe they're in extended care, hospice, or some type of retirement home and you are entitled to assets from that person based on their will, their directives, or their wishes, many times you're going [...]

8 05, 2025

How To Get Money Back From A Scam From 3rd Parties

By |2025-06-20T22:19:13-04:00May 8th, 2025|Asset Search, Private Investigator|Comments Off on How To Get Money Back From A Scam From 3rd Parties

Third-Party Restitution for Fraud Victims If you've been watching our channel for a while, you know that one of the most common suggestions we have for fraud victims is to look at third-party restitution. Many times the scammer or fraudster that took your money may not have all of it to give you back. Sometimes a recovery of that money requires that you look at third parties. Many of the biggest recoveries we've done [...]

8 05, 2025

How To Make Your Bank Pay Back Lost Fraud Ponzi Scam Losses

By |2025-06-20T22:23:53-04:00May 8th, 2025|Asset Search, Private Investigator|Comments Off on How To Make Your Bank Pay Back Lost Fraud Ponzi Scam Losses

Bank Liability in Ponzi Scheme Cases Here's another example of where a major bank had to pay back a customer who lost money in a Ponzi scheme. You may not think the bank is liable, but if the bank allowed a scammer to access your money by not even following their own procedures, you may have some liability claims against that bank. Now granted, the bank is not the one who stole your money. [...]

26 03, 2025

Use The Scammers Strategy Against Them

By |2025-06-20T22:30:57-04:00March 26th, 2025|Private Investigator|Comments Off on Use The Scammers Strategy Against Them

You Are Not Alone in Falling Victim to Online Scams If you have been a victim of one of these Pig Butchering online scams, you may be feeling kind of low about yourself that maybe you did something wrong, or maybe you were stupid or vulnerable. Well, that's not really the case. Here's a perfect example from an article on MoneyWise via Yahoo, where a retired law enforcement officer lost their entire life savings [...]

14 03, 2025

Do Online Scammers Get Caught?

By |2025-06-20T22:36:48-04:00March 14th, 2025|Private Investigator|Comments Off on Do Online Scammers Get Caught?

Scammers Do Get Caught On Fridays we always like to add to our series that scammers do get caught. Here are two articles today about Ponzi schemers that did some of these crypto scams that many victims are falling into that actually got caught. People all the time that are clients always wonder, "Hey, do people ever go to jail for this? Does the money ever get recovered? Do people get busted?" And here [...]

13 03, 2025

Get Data From Car Computers Black Box Telematics

By |2025-06-20T22:45:01-04:00March 13th, 2025|Private Investigator|Comments Off on Get Data From Car Computers Black Box Telematics

Vehicle Telematics: What Data is Your Car Collecting? This could either be good news or bad news depending on how you look at it. Modern vehicles are now collecting all kinds of data about you as you're driving and as you're using the vehicle. It's called vehicle telematics, and telematics records everything from: Are the doors open? Are the lights on? Are you pressing on the brakes? What's the speed? Are the turn signals [...]

8 03, 2025

Zelle Payment Fraud Developments

By |2025-06-20T22:54:30-04:00March 8th, 2025|Asset Search, Private Investigator|Comments Off on Zelle Payment Fraud Developments

Introduction to the Zelle Payment Fraud Issue Okay, if you've been a viewer of this channel for long enough, you know we've been **tracking** this whole Zelle payment fraud scam issue. Zelle **is** a payment system that came out probably about seven or eight years ago to be a competitor to things like PayPal, Cash App, or Venmo. It was **created** by several large banks Wells Fargo, JP Morgan, and so on. What they [...]

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