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Our Role In The Australian Community
Our Role In the Australian Community Despite our best efforts, Private Investigators have a notoriously shady reputation about them; a reputation created by Hollywood and then held over us by the masses in expectation of what and who we’re supposed to be. It may be surprising then, to learn that some of Australia’s larger detective…
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Bugs Pose a Threat To Every Industry
Bugs Pose a Threat to Every Industry Earlier this week, it was revealed that the security guard on point for the All Blacks Ruby team and one of their managers found a bugging device that had been planted in their Sydney Hotel late last year. The news hadn’t come to light earlier as the former…
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Occupational Hazards
Occupational Hazards Did you know, private investigators can sometimes inadvertently become involved with criminal investigations? While serious issues such as murder and armed robbery are normally the sole purview of the Police, it is not unheard of for Private Investigators to face dangerous or even life-threatening situations while on duty.
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Should Spying On People Really Be This Easy?
Spying on People Is Easier Than Ever Have you ever considered that you may have been the Subject of an investigation at some point in your life? You’re probably thinking in terms of the Police, or Private Eyes… or maybe Auditors even, but I’m referring to a very different kind of investigation; not a Private…
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Clear As Crystal – Discussing the Issues Surrounding Methamphetamine
Clear as Crystal – Understanding the Issues Australia Faces with Crystal Meth A recent study, published by the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, has brought some interesting statistics to light with regards to the use and abuse of Crystal Meth (methamphetamine) – a drug that Australia is all too familiar with. The report shows…
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How Would You Feel If You Were Put Under Investigation?
How Would You Feel If You Were Put Under Investigation? This question was raised, albeit paraphrased, on a website called Quora, an interesting question and answer forum, similar to the likes of Yahoo! Answers, and I thought it appropriate to share some insight into how you could, would and theoretically should feel if you were…
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Developing Service Delivery for Even Better Results
There’s Never Been a Better Time to Hire a Private Investigator Precise Investigation has been quiet for the last two months across our social spheres as a result of a series of intrinsic changes we’ve been making to our team; bringing in and training up new expertise, developing on our investigative services and enhancing the…
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How to Avoid Paying Out a Multi-Million Dollar Insurance Fraud
You Can Kiss Your $2 Million Goodbye CNP Finance, an Australian insurance firm specialising in Workers’ Compensation recently took us up on our tender, allowing us to provide the company with the very best in insurance and litigation-specific investigations. With that in mind, prior to Precise Investigation taking CNP on as a client, a man…
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12 Year-Old’s “Epic Journey” Across Australia – A Solemn Reminder
A 12 Year-Old Boy Drove 1300km Across Eastern Australia, Alone. As some of you may have already heard, read or seen on the news, or pretty much anywhere on the web, a 12-year old boy was arrested on Saturday after he was found to have stolen a car and driven, unassisted and without a license…
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Study Shows Most Domestic Violence in Australia Is Enacted By Family Members
Violence Towards Women – A Family Matter? A new case study surrounding assault victims treated in Australian hospitals has shown that violence against women is “usually” carried out by a partner or spouse and, in the majority of cases, the perpetrator is a family member. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) has released…
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A Peek at The Results of the Australian Census
Just How Average Are You? “Average” – possibly the worst word to describe many things, but yet a word that we rely on so much to describe normality. It’s a word that’s used to make us feel ok, because, hey, it’s what everyone else is doing, right? Well, in light of the upcoming census results,…
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How to Rip Off Your Insurance Company
Green Slip Prices Set to Spike in NSW? In light of the numerous articles we’ve released recently regarding insurance fraud and scams in Australia, and having come across yet another startling insurance scam this morning, we thought to share a handy “How to” – or not, as the case may be! The article from the…
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How to Get Out of the Friend Zone
Sometimes, If You Really Want Something, You Just Have to Steal It! … That should not to be taken as professional or even friendly advice – it’s merely a statement referring to an observation we made during our latest infidelity case. Most affairs are pretty cut and dry in the sense that one person in…
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A Complicated Gold GST Scam Stole $700 Million from Aussie Taxpayers
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] $700 Million Has Already Been Lost – When Will It End? In an almost unbelievable turn of events, it appears that one particular act of fraud has single-handedly caused the scrap metal industry in Australia to boom from $160m in 2011, to over $1.8 billion in 2016. While that might sound like an incredibly…
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More than $150,000 Lost to Fake Online Stores | Fraud and Scams Australia
Over 1,000 Reports So Far This Year – More Than 50% Report Financial Losses In light of an article we can across on Scamwatch.gov.au, reporting a shocking number of successful online scams wreaking havoc in Australia, once again, we thought to firstly share the news and secondly, share crucial information that can help you to…
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How to Effectively Manage and Mitigate Insurance Fraud in Australia
Working Towards a Better, More Efficient and Cost Effective Insurance Industry Reflecting on our most recent case article, describing an employee’s attempts to outsmart his employer and their respective insurers into paying out on a fake back injury, and the fact that he is just one of the countless cases every year that cost honest…
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Workers Compensation Fraudster Caught Bowling with Bad Back | Fraud Australia
Your Back’s Practically Broken – Why Are You Bowling? Gravalax Pty Ltd is a concrete and cement manufacturer with offices across a number of states in Australia and Tasmania, and it’s main insurer, QBE Assurance, are both a long-term clients of Precise Investigation. While Gravalax has always done it’s best to meet WorkSafe requirements and…
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How to Recycle Plastic and Make a Pretty Penny Doing It | Theft Australia
In December of last year, Precise Investigation was approached by a leading supermarket chain to investigate a series of mysterious disappearances from two of the company’s warehouses in Victoria. Daniel Evans, the warehouse manager at the northern branch, first noticed that a number of the company’s plastic crates for food and beverages appeared to be…
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The Benefits of Long-term Commercial Partnerships
Our Commitment to Long-term Commercial Partnerships Precise Investigation prides itself on being able to deliver successful, key investigation services across a multitude of commercial, industrial and domestic settings – at least, that’s what many of our clients associate us with. As integral as the standards to which our services are delivered, it is, in fact,…
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The Importance of Closure and How Best to Obtain It
How To Get Closure in Life, Love and Business Closure, as a subject, may seem to be an excessively wide-ranging topic to cover in a short period of time, and it is – but we’re going to focus in on the bare essentials and explore what happens when people don’t get the closure they need.…
