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Falling Off The Grid: A How-To Disappear. Part I/II

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Lina Maini

As an investigator for well over a decade, often employed in a skip-tracing capacity, I’ve learned how a  person can disappear (fall off the grid) or modify their public data (perception management). Without delving too much into SEO and other optimization methods hawked on the market, we focus on running our people tracer searches in reverse; [...]

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Who Am I Dealing With?? Watching Your Back(ground) Checks.

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Lina Maini

Now that we are past the literal dogfight world of last week’s ugly politics, my concentration falls back to tangible information for the legal (and corporate) professional regarding background searches. Lately, we are requested quite often to research the backgrounds of prospective employees, partners and corporate entities. With our now internet-enabled reach (not just to locate web-based [...]

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Investigation Urban Myths Debunked

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Lina Maini

Image via Wikipedia At social events or during casual introductions, invariably the question is raised (sometimes politely), “So, what do you do?”  Presumably, the person is requesting my career field information. I’m dual-careered - investigations/security and animation development/production (proprietary property only) and occasionally, marketing (for clients as diverse as Domino’s Pizza to law firms to Sony).  [...]

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Successful Locates v. Diminished Settlements

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Lina Maini

To conduct a successful locate, hire a good investigator. As flippant and self-serving as that may appear, if you’ve tried the usual public search options and have come up negative, if might be time to hire a professional detective.   The information online appears to be uniform.  It’s not.  A good investigator will use multiple data sources to locate [...]

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100 Useful Niche Search Engines You’ve Never Heard Of

Posted on July 27, 2009 by Lina Maini

Well, it’s probable that you have heard of a few of the niche search engines mentioned by our friends from Social Blog 100+ Useful Search Engines.  Aside from using megasearch engine Google, though, have you really surfed the more drilled down search sites?  I’m sure you can find use from at least a few in the list.  [...]

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Reminder: Secure Your Metadata

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Lina Maini

From Wikipedia: Metadata (meta data, or sometimes metainformation) is “data about other data”, of any sort in any media. An item of metadata may describe an individual datum, or content item, or a collection of data including multiple content items and hierarchical levels, for example a database schema. In data processing, metadata is definitional data [...]

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