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5 Real-life Reasons to Run an Investigation | Private Investigations Australia
5 Real-life Reasons to Run an Investigation: Whether it’s through a surveillance operation, a series of background checks, a fully-fledged fraud investigation or any of our associated services, we’d like to share why it’s so important that you run an investigation. Through our own personal experience, as one of Australia’s leading private investigation agencies, we’ve…
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Nasty Surprise for Off-Duty Private Eye | Holiday Horrors
Nasty Surprise for Off-Duty Private Eye: Like so many of us, it’s not uncommon that we private investigators take work home, or in this case, even on holiday with us – we’re never really “off-duty,” as such, but there comes a time and a place that work drifts to the back of our minds… or…
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So, You Met in a Bar? | Relationship Investigations Sydney
So, You Met in a Bar? James E. Payton is a wealthy online marketer, having spent most of his career developing successful brand campaigns for mid and high-level businesses internationally. He’d been head-hunted from a company he was working for in Singapore, to provide his expertise to a smaller, up and coming advertising agency in…
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Not Quite the Help She Was After | Babysitters from Hell Adelaide
Not Quite the Help She Was After: Nick and Grace Wellington and their four-year-old daughter just moved into a new neighbourhood in Adelaide’s Eastern suburbs. Grace used to be a Real Estate Agent, but left work after Kathy was born so that she could become a full-time mother, while the couple moved to allow for…
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Child Custody Battle Begins and Ends with Abuse | Child and Spousal Abuse Sydney
Abuse Before and After Child Custody Battle: Helen Basingstoke is a seven-year-old girl who lost both her parents before she’d even had the chance to understand who they were. Her mother, Karen died giving birth to Helen and her father, Nick committed suicide just a year after she was born. Fortunately, it would seem, Helen…
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15 Ways to Spot a Private Eye | Insights into Private Investigators
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Receptionist on the Run | Employee Misconduct Melbourne
Receptionist on the Run: We were recently called by a leading Event Management company, based in Melbourne, after the receptionist went missing. Now as sinister or worrying as that may sound, she didn’t simply up and vanish; instead she decided to make a runner after the company had clinched a multi-million-dollar contract for an upcoming…
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Can Your Computer Keep a Secret? | Data Leaks and Online Privacy
Can Your Computer Keep a Secret? Precise Investigation, like many private investigation firms, is generally considered to be a field player; taking to the streets in a plain car, with a camera in tow. Now, while that might be true in the majority of our cases, our expertise in the office is often just as…
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Law Firm Loses Hundreds of Thousands | Sydney Law Firms and Investigations
Law Firm Loses Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars: A Sydney-based Law firm, specialising in injury and insurance claims had been running a successful practice for over twenty years, from the city’s central business district. While most firms abide by the law, there are often cases where, in order to get the outcome a client might…
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Bad News For a Sugar Daddy | Relationships Sydney
Sugar Daddy Gets Some Bad News: Two weeks ago, Melvin Star, a wealthy property investor, got in touch with us after his then boyfriend, Charlie Pollock, told him that he’d like to spend some time alone for a week, “to get his head straight.” The two had started seeing each other after meeting in a…
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9 Ways To Spot A Fake Paypal Email | Fake Paypal Emails
9 Ways To Spot A Fake Paypal Email: We’re sharing this information because this one nearly had us fooled. Paypal, as most of you will know, is one of the world’s leading online financial tools, allowing people to pay for nearly everything on the internet as well as providing a platform through which businesses and…
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A Tip on Protecting Yourself From Dodgy Babysitters and Malicious Tradesmen | Profiling and Background Checks
Protecting Yourself From Dodgy Babysitters Tradesmen: We were recently tasked with looking into a suspected case of a dodgy babysitter-turned-nanny. Natalie Djokova, a Russian national attempting to make her way in Australia through a student visa (another issue that we won’t go into for the moment, but nonetheless something that Australia’s border control might want…
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Something Doesn’t Taste Right | Beers and Lagers in Adelaide
Something Doesn’t Taste Right: Sam and Jack Davies, two brothers from Adelaide, managed to clinch a sizeable investment to take their home-brewed, craft beer to new heights. The two had developed a taste for artisanal lagers after a trip to Germany for the ever-famous Oktoberfest, a world-renowned beer-centric event held annually in Munich. The investment…
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5 Reasons To Be More Curious | Curiosity Didn’t Kill The Cat – It Taught It
5 Reasons To Be More Curious: They say that curiosity killed the cat, but what they don’t talk about all too often is how that cat ended up living a good 18 years before it died, and its curiosity led it to learn a great deal about its life, its surroundings, the people in its…
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Christmas: The Most Joyous Time of the Year… For Some | Holiday Issues Melbourne
The Most Joyous Time of the Year: Kate Walker, a qualified, multi-lingual translation specialist and her partner, Freddy Brown, a European language expert, met at the University of Melbourne 6 years before starting their very own, small-scale international translations business. Originally catering for translations from Asian languages to English and vice-versa, their rapid success meant…
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ACCC Issues High Alert Warning: New Christmas Scam | Fraud and Scams in Australia
New Christmas Scam: The ACCC has released a “high alert” warning, advising consumers of a new malicious scam that’s already seen over $80,000 AUD stolen since 1st December of this year and over 100 reports – that’s already more than the whole of last December’s reports and significantly more in costs to the victims so…
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Man Overcomes Bribery and Sexual Extortion at Work | Workplace Behaviour and Abuse Investigations
Bribery and Sexual Extortion at Work: Jasper Ashton, a 24-year-old man based in Adelaide, had spent his early days “on the job” working as on office clerk in one of the city’s top Office Equipment and Stationery supply companies. He had always performed well and seen three promotions after working there over the course of…
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Doing Your Due Diligence in Business Really Pays Off | Commercial Investigations Australia
The Importance of Due Diligence in Business: A Sydney-based man has been arrested at New Zealand’s International Airport as he attempted to flee the country, following allegations of multiple counts of major, international fraud. The man goes by many names including, Daniel Albert, Daniel Hannah, Daniel Erefor and Daniel Bowman, to name a few, and…
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Facebook Fraudster Who Stole $150,000 Gets Charged | Facebook and Social Media News
Facebook Fraudster Gets Caught: Chidoo Ohad Nukobam, a Nigerian National who had set up shop in Western Australia met a 42-year-old woman, who wishes not to be named, over Facebook in August 2014. Chidoo had set up a fake profile on the social site and used it to pose as a successful businessman and entrepreneur,…
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Woolworths Used To Lure You In | Woolworths Pricing Scandal
Woolworths Used To Lure You In: It seems that the Christmas scamming spree has begun early this year, with three major scams cropping up over the last three weeks. First it was the Australian Tax Office, then it was Qantas and now it’s Woolworths… actually we should say that it wasn’t them, but fraudsters from…
