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How to Protect Yourself from Christmas Scams | Scams and Fraud in Australia
How to Avoid Getting Scammed This Christmas As some of you will know, and hopefully more of you will come to learn as we get closer to this year’s festivities, Christmas isn’t only a season of love, sharing and giving, but it’s also the hottest time of year for scams. With that in mind, I’d…
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Are Professional Resume Services Unfair? | Jobs & Employment Australia
Do Professional Résumé Services Give Candidates an Unfair Advantage? Last week I had a young man contact me in regards to one of my field agent job postings. He was fresh out of the “academy” and was looking to get his foot in the door. Based on his résumé, while he had only just completed…
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Should Infidelity Lead to Separation? | Love & Relationships Australia
Is Infidelity a Good Excuse to End the Relationship? It might sound like a crazy question, and don’t get me wrong – if I had to come home one afternoon to find that my partner had been doing the dirty with someone else, I would definitely feel incredibly hurt – but, as a divorcee…
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Neighbourhood Watch Hires PI to Investigate Vandalism | Properties, Vandalism and Crime in Australia
Neighbourhood Watch Hires PI to Investigate Vandalism As most of you are aware, vandalism is the act of causing purposeful damage to another person or company’s property. There is no “one shape fits all” reason for why people go about vandalising things; rage, envy, jealousy, sending a message, fun, madness and gang initiations are amongst…
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The Dangers of Online Dating | Relationships Australia
The Dangers of Online Dating: Jonathan Snellings, AKA Jon-Jo, is a 44-year-old electrical engineer, who’s spent most of his career working in the Iron mines in Western Australia. Mr Snellings was married once before, from 1996 to 1998, when his then wife met another man and the two divorced. For the last 18 years, Jon-Jo…
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Halloween’s Killer Clowns | Facts about Halloween in Australia
The Halloween Crime Spike – What to expect in Australian this Halloween: Tonight Australia is going to embrace an primeval celebration, most renowned in America, where houses are adorned with lights, creepy decorations, cobwebs and pumpkins and children of all ages dress in cute or terrifying costumes and go door-knocking for free sweets. An…
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The Real Effects of Grief | Missing Persons Australia
The Real Effects of Grief: I’ve been a private investigator for over thirty years now and, throughout my career, year in and year out, I’ve been approached by grieving mums and twisted dads, bent over the fact that they have no idea where their children are. In the meantime, the kids in question have slipped…
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What A Surprise | Relationships Australia
What A Surprise: Carmel and Hugh Jones have been married for a year – they met when Hugh and his friends vacationed in Greece over a summer holiday two years earlier. On and off for the year leading up to their marriage, both admitted to each other that they were “open” with other people, but…
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Qualifications Exist For A Reason | Background Checks Victoria
Qualifications Exist For A Reason: WARNING – THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS IMAGES THAT SOME READERS MAY FIND DISTURBING. DISCRETION IS ADVISED. Jonny Verazzo is a 29-year-old man from Italy who decided to emigrate to Australia to improve his quality of life, make more money for his family back in Sicily and try his hand at one…
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The Spies Among Us | Corporate Espionage Australia
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Spies Among Us: Now this is interesting! For the first time, Precise Investigation was brought into an investigation commissioned by the Managing Directors and CEOs of four companies, working together to overcome a serious case of corporate espionage. Over the last eight months, all four men were in contact with each other as…
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There’s Something In The Sushi | Drug Abuse Melbourne
There’s Something In The Sushi: Vanessa Redgrave owns a small business consultancy just outside Melbourne’s bustling CBD. She regularly works with other small businesses to help them improve their position in today’s turbulent online marketplace, and she’s been very successful to date. Earlier this year, Vanessa expanded her operation and set about recruiting for a…
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What If It Was You? | Missing Persons Australia
What If It Was You? Australia’s Missing Persons: Picture yourself on a Friday night; it’s been a long week, work’s been tough and now it’s your time to kick back with a few friends and enjoy that long-awaited weekend feeling. You throw back a shot with your “bestie” in celebration of her new promotion, laughing…
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Crash Test Dummies | Car Insurance Fraud
Crash Test Dummies: Michael Turck is a 21-year-old psychology student with an affinity for speed – and his best friend, Ben Ülrich is much the same. Michael’s aunt passed away in early 2015 and left both him and his brother with a small inheritance, money that Michael would later use to purchase his first car.…
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Made To Fight | Animal Abuse & Background Checks
Made To Fight: Tash Hunter owns two wildlife rehabilitation centres in Australia; one in Victoria and the other just a short trip from Hobart in Tasmania. Her sanctuary takes in sick, injured or discarded animals from the wild, the side of the road and from people bringing them in. From there, she and her team…
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Smoking Gun | Fake Products Sydney
Smoking Gun: James Wenju, a successful businessman originally from Japan, has been living in Australia for close to fifteen years, working for a reputable accounting firm here whilst maintaining three businesses overseas for additional income. On his 40th birthday, a dear friend of his, Ken Bruce purchased a box of 50 fine Cuban cigars –…
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Ex’s Vigilance Really Pays Off | Relationship Issues Melbourne
Ex’s Vigilance Really Pays Off: Larisa Boumont was involved with a man, Bernard Lewis, for five years before she realised that he was becoming increasingly violent towards her. She originally speculated that it was all due to alcohol abuse, but as the time went by, she started to realise that there were no real indicators…
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Sexually Transmitted Debt | Financial Issues Australia
Sexually Transmitted Debt It’s on thing to fall in love with a person, only to find out after a few months that they had a nasty biological surprise waiting for you under the bed sheets… a surprise that you’d then start learning about after realising that it’s taken hold of you too. While sexually transmitted…
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The Australian Tax Office and Scammers | Australian Tax Office Hobart
The Australian Tax Office and Scammers: I find myself here looking through my inbox to see that over the last month I have received various news bits from around Australia that are specific to scammers taking advantage of people by posing as the ATO. Surely there will come a point where everyone just understands that…
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And So the Scams Continue | Fraud and Scams in Australia
And So the Scams Continue: Monday’s blog was the first we’d released in a few weeks and it’s shocking to find that since then, there have been over 40 different stories in the press about frauds being jailed, scams being undertaken and con-artists being freed from prison. It really goes to show just how prone…
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The Ultimate Matchmaker | Private Investigators Abroad
The Ultimate Matchmaker: While not exactly the perfect definition for any private investigator, it would seem that our capacities in the field allow us the opportunity to delve into people’s lives and ultimately help them to better understand each other; particularly in moments of crisis, confusion, stress and resentment. It is not unusual for…
