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Australia’s New Cyber Intelligence Unit – Is It Enough? | Australian Law and Investigations
Australia’s New Cyber Intelligence Unit – Is It Enough? In the news this morning, it was brought to our attention that the Australian Government, along with a few others around the world, may have started taking cyber crime a bit more seriously. Most of us, especially those who use the internet on a daily basis,…
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Bittersweet Revenge – A Student Gets His Own Back | Revenge and Investigations Perth
Bittersweet Revenge – A Student Gets His Own Back: Gary Davis was employed by a small human resourcing company in Perth since he left school at the age of 17. Nearly ten years later, he’d realised that HR and recruitment was a long way off from what he’d actually really wanted in life; to run…
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What Do Private Investigators and Viagra Have in Common? | Humour and Insights into the PI Industry
What Do Private Investigators and Viagra Have in Common? What a question! Unfortunately, nobody’s ever outwardly asked us that, and I’m pretty sure that no private investigator in Australia, and maybe even the entire world, has been asked either. The answer? Both private investigators and Viagra are capable of improving your sex life! However,…
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Domestic Cases Complement our Insurance Investigations | Private Investigation Industry
Domestic Cases Complement our Insurance Investigations: Precise Investigation works across both the commercial and domestic markets, as some of you may be aware but, what some of you might not know is that the company was originally founded to provide investigations to personal (private) clients alone. Over our first decade in the field, our investigators…
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Casino gets Taken for a Ride | Casinos and Gambling Investigations Australia
Casino gets Taken for a Ride: One of Australia’s leading chains of premium casinos, Royal Flush, undertook an internal investigation, beginning in December 2015, after the company’s accountants found that hundreds of thousands of dollars were going missing every month, from various locations across the country. An in-depth analysis of their books revealed that customers…
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Insurance Company Catches a Fraudster | Insurance Fraud Australia
Insurance Company Catches a Fraudster: Samantha and Frank Nesbit have been married for five years and started working together as mobile application designers as they’d both qualified in computer sciences and saw a niche in the market. Over a four-year period, the couple managed to generate an average income of $120,000 a year, before going…
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Defrauding Your Insurance Company | Insurance Investigations Australia
Defrauding Your Insurance Company: Earlier this month, Precise Investigation was hired by GHA Insurance, a commercial insurance provider, to investigate a claim. Chester and West, an up and coming digital marketing agency, filed a claim amounting to more than $45,000 after the sprinkler system in their office drenched all of their equipment. In total, 25…
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How to Steal Your Own Child (Legally) | Child Custody Victoria
How to Steal Your Own Child (Legally): Freddia and Michael Pritchett met each other at a social event in 2010 and fell madly in love; it wasn’t long before they moved in with each other and, within a year, the two were happily married. Soon after their marriage, they had a baby boy together, further…
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What Visa Fraud Actually Means for Australia
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] What Visa Fraud Actually Means for Australia: As you may have noticed, Precise Investigation has posted a number of articles regarding Australia’s ever-growing Visa fraud situation, as more and more often, corrupt officials, fixers and illegal immigrants are being found to have been involved in some form of visa-related crime. This time it’s worse;…
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13 Signs Your Husband is Having an Affair | Relationships, Affairs and Infidelity
13 Signs Your Husband is Having an Affair: Infidelity can be incredibly difficult to detect and, although not entirely bulletproof, we have put together a list of 13 signs that can ultimately help you to determine whether your husband is having an affair. 1- PRIVATE PHONE CALLS: Although there may be an occasional need for…
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Escaping an Early Death | Attempted Murder Australia
Escaping an Early Death: Dana Valehart, an 83-year-old retired accountant, mother of three and grandmother of five had managed to set her entire family up for life as she, in her earlier years, worked for one of Australia’s top fifty companies listed on the ASX as their Chief Financial Officer. As such, Dana put a…
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Women’s Role in Australian Fraud | Fraud and Scams
Women’s Role in Australian Fraud: Yet again it has been revealed that Australia’s fraud situation continues to go from bad to worse, this time following a report from KPMG, based on their latest fraud barometer. The report compares the frequency of fraud and the financial damage it has caused over a period of six months…
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Estate Agent Steals $50K from Clients | Theft and Pilfering Northern Territory
Estate Agent Steals $50K from Clients Manolis Karapsitis, the former director of the Northern Territory estate agency, Your Real Estate NT, has pleaded guilty to thirty-five counts of theft after he was found to have stolen more than $57,000 from his clients to fund a lifestyle of drugs and gambling. The Darwin Local Court heard…
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$500,000 Visa Fraud | Australian Immigration and Visa Fraud
$500,000 Visa Fraud: Yet again, Precise Investigation has come to hear that Australia has once more fallen victim to internalised economic crime. In light of our three previous articles on the subject, it is becoming increasingly apparent that Australia, as a nation, and regardless of the number of warnings issued by leading Newspapers, Journals and…
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Woolworths Caught Up in Laundry Scandal | Dodgy Dealing Australia
Woolworths Caught Up in Laundry Scandal: After a Federal Court hearing on Friday, Woolworths has admitted to “being knowingly concerned in the making of, and giving effect to” a shady agreement between Colgate-Palmolive, Unilever and PZ Cussons in which the three companies arranged to pull their standard laundry detergent products from the shelves in preference…
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Honest Policy Holders Paying for Insurance Fraud | Insurance Fraud Investigation
Honest Policy Holders Paying for Insurance Fraud: In light of the article we published earlier this week, we felt that it was important to share the latest news concerning yet another economic crime situation that’s affecting Australia. ABC News has released a story that doubles up on the facts we presented in our “Australia’s Appalling…
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Australia’s Appalling Economic Crime Situation | Finance, Insurance & Fraud
The Dire Economic Crime Situation in Australia: It has recently come to light that Australia has managed to claim a title that no nation wants to bear: the world’s most economic crime-affected country. Following the latest report issued by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), an internationally-recognised assurance, tax and audit consultancy, more than 52% of Australian organisations testified…
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Home Alone | Youth and Responsibility Sydney
Home Alone: A wealthy family based in Seaforth, Sydney were growing suspicious of their youngest son’s behaviour after he left school. Josh Edgar, 19, was a stellar athlete, playing football, rugby and even swimming to represent his school – he was described as being polite, understanding and kind, however his parents, Sarah and David, noticed…
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Peace of Mind for Patent Attorney | Patent Attorney Adelaide
Peace of Mind for Patent Attorney: Johnson & Abram is a long-standing Intellectual Property specialist based in Melbourne, assisting companies and individuals across Australia, as well as numerous foreign inventors to protect their ideas through professional IP solutions. Taking their customer confidentiality very seriously, it is an integral part of the company’s policies that they…
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Employees Bunking Off Work to Search for Other Jobs | Employee Misconduct Melbourne
Employees Bunking Off Work to Search for Other Jobs: Over the last five years, WMP Ltd, a small web development company based in Melbourne’s bustling CBD, managed to build an enviable reputation as one of the city’s leading SEO agencies. With that reputation came a spike in job applications, giving CEO, Mark Tindal access to…
