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VW Just One of Countless Corporate Fraudsters Over the Last 100 Years | Global Commercial Fraud
VW Just One of Many Corporate Fraudsters: Martin Winterkorn, resigned earlier this week following the mounting pressure that’s been building up around Volkswagen’s now world-renowned emissions scam. Originally, 482,000 cars were thought to be in violation of US emissions regulations, but since then it has been discovered that more than 11 million VW diesel vehicles…
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Could the Death of an Innocent 12-Year-Old Girl Have Been Prevented? | Murder Prevention & Investigations
Could the Death of a Little Girl Have Been Prevented? Police have arrested a 31-year-old man, suspected of murdering his 12-year-old stepdaughter, after a family member found the girl’s body in her bedroom. The man was picked up by police in Rutherford, just two hours later, driving the family car in, what is suspected to…
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Volkswagen, The World’s Biggest Car Manufacturer, Fined AUS$25 Billion
Volkswagen Fined AUS$25 Billion: 11 Million vehicles are being recalled after investigations revealed that the German auto giant, Volkswagen, deliberately installed “defeat devices” in their diesel models to falsify emissions tests. According to authorities in the Unites States, the world’s largest automaker, by sales in the first half of this year, is understood to have…
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Is He Holding Those Right? Fraudster Disguised As Gynaecologist | Gynaecology Scams, Fake Doctors and Fraud Australia
Fraudster Disguised As Gynaecologist: On 13th July 2015, Precise Investigation published an article titled, “An Uncomfortable Thought: Even Your Doctor Could Be A Scam Artist.” The article referred to a case involving Dr Farid Fata, who purposefully misdiagnosed cancer patients as a means to maximise his income and managed to rake in over $17 Million…
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6 Ways a Professional PI Can Help Your Business | Commercial Investigation Services
6 Ways a Professional Private Investigator Can Help Your Business: Precise Investigation has stood at the forefront of Private Investigations within Australia for thirty years. In that time, we’ve served a great many clients from all walks of life – suspicious husbands, worried wives, small businesses, international brands and government bodies have all seen the…
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Where’s My Money? Precise Investigation Finds Out | Skip Tracing and Location Services Australia
Where’s My Money? A few weeks ago, a leading property development company based in Melbourne came to Precise Investigation, asking us to follow up on a suspected case of fraud. Harriet Kilmer, a qualified and highly-experienced bookkeeper from St. Kilda, Melbourne, was employed by Cemtex Construction Pty Ltd to handle the company finances and ensure…
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$41,000 in Computer Equipment Lost To Fraud | Theft, Scams and Fraud in Australia
$41,000 in Computer Equipment Lost To Fraud: Precise Investigation is regularly sought out to investigate on behalf of insurance companies, providing them with the information they need to verify whether a claim, or number thereof, are legitimate or not. Most recently, our client, one of Sydney’s leading corporate insurance providers, received a spike in claims…
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A New Android App Blackmails Its Customers | Sex, Blackmail and Scams
Blackmailed By An App: Adult Player, a porn application that has recently found its way onto thousands of unsuspecting victims’ Android Smartphones, has been found to exist for one reason and one reason alone: Blackmail. The app is not available through Google’s App market, otherwise known as the Google Play Store, as it would never…
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Man Sentenced to Six Years in Prison for a Malicious Myki Porn Scam | Melbourne Scams and Pornography
Sentenced to Six Years in Prison for Myki Porn Scam: Kenneth Palliser, a 62-year old computer technician based in Victoria, has pleaded guilty to multiple counts of fraud, deception and child exploitation. In 2010, Palliser was employed to fix a teenage boy’s computer, but later went on to befriend the boy and two of his…
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Exposed: Even Vending Machines Can Fall to the Hands of Fraud | Commercial Investigations and Fraud
Even Vending Machines Can Fall to the Hands of Fraud: One of Australia’s leading vending machine distributors almost lost its largest clients before they were able to determine the root of the cause. Floyd Grossman, a vending machine technician hired on a contractual basis, was employed at the company to stock soft drink vending machines…
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16 Years of Marriage Thrown to The Wayside | Marriage and Infidelity in Australia
16 Years of Marriage Thrown to The Wayside: Precise Investigation is regularly sought out to investigate husbands and wives on their spouses’ behalves, following rising suspicions of their after-work activities, sudden changes in mood or behaviour, a need for private phone calls or apparent lack of interest in their partners. Our latest case was no…
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Exposed: Employees Steal from a Leading Soft-Drink Company | Theft and Crime in Australia
Employees Steal from a Leading Soft-Drinks Company: Most companies account for small losses in their stock, usually as the result of handling or shipping accidents where products can fall over during transit or break after being dropped. With that, a few months ago, Precise Investigation was hired by a leading soft-drinks company to follow up…
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Even the Biggest and Most Respected of Organisations Can Be Fraudsters | Fraud and Scams in Australia
Even the Biggest and Most Respected of Organisations Can Be Fraudsters: Ever heard of 7-Eleven? For those of you in the Northern reaches of the country where the brand is a little less prevalent, 7-Eleven is one of Australia’s most common corner stores, selling every-day essentials, snacks, tobacco, drinks and their famous $2, Barista-style coffees,…
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Deception in Marriage Can Have a Happy Ending | Infidelity and Affair Investigations Melbourne
Deception in Marriage Can Have a Happy Ending: Precise Investigation was recently hired to investigate a concerned woman’s husband after she grew suspicious of his late-night activities. Lisa, a leading sales rep for a reputable plumbing company in the heart of Melbourne, has been married to Phil for almost 40 years. The ex-military, 6ft 6inch…
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Even Victoria’s Public Transport Network is Affected By Scams | Fraud and Scams in Australia
Victoria’s Public Transport Network is Affected By Scams: For those of you who don’t know what a Myki Card is, a few years ago, Public Transport Victoria revealed a top-up card that you could simply “touch on” and “touch off” throughout the Victorian public transport network that would aim to improve overall payment efficiency. It…
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How to Expose a Cheating Partner | Love and Relationships Australia
How to Expose a Cheating Partner: Following on from the ongoing gossip surrounding the Ashley Madison scandal, where hackers have invaded the company’s databases and threated to reveal more than 17 million people’s secret identities, Precise Investigation has decided to give those in need a little help. Luckily Australians, on the whole, are not notoriously…
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Identity Theft is Still Very Much Alive | Identity Theft Australia
Identity Theft is Still Very Much Alive: …and a very serious problem! CIB detectives have recently charged a 34-year-old, Parra Hills-based man with over 20 counts of fraud and deception following his arrest on Monday. The man created numerous false identities and used those guises as a means to infiltrate strangers’ online profiles before going…
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Thinking of Advancing Your Career? | Profiling, Education and Background Checks Australia
Thinking of Advancing Your Career? Background checks aren’t just for people – with the constant rise in fraud reaping Australia, even the college you’re thinking about enrolling in might need a quick once over. A recent investigation, carried out by the Victorian State Government, has revealed that an alarming number of training institutions throughout the…
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The Dangers of Marriage | Background Checks and Profiling Melbourne
The Dangers of Marriage: Being unfaithful is notoriously a frowned-upon notion, but few ever really consider the long-term effects of living with a partner who has no intention of keeping to their vows. Precise Investigation was recently hired to follow a lady’s husband after she grew suspicious of his after-work activities, but what she endured…
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Why Professional Location Services Matter | Skip Tracing and Locations Services Australia
Why Professional Location Services Matter: Timothy Hewett, a long-standing investment specialist, has made a great deal of money in recent years by injecting capital into failing businesses and then working alongside CEOs as a means to help them build their brands and increase profits. For years he has made a name for himself, through his…
