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As a cyber detective agency, we often tell people that we are the last person they want to call.
You remember the old joke. “You know you’re having a bad day when 60 minute Mike Wallace shows up at your door” …
Unfortunately, the same is true in our business, but luckily, most people don’t need to hire a detective until the internet gets really ugly for them. To better illustrate, let me give you a couple of examples of how bad the internet has gone for some and then courses of action to help fix it.
In a recent case, an American corporation was being blackmailed for more than $ 1 million dollars by a group that had adverse information and threatened to expose it around the world, with the push of a button. Frankly, there are not many companies that do not have some type of information, including trade secrets, that would be devastating if it were exposed openly on the Internet.
In another case, a client was attacked by an antagonist who set up a smear site aimed at destroying a private cancer center and diverting business. The attacks were totally unfair and substantially hindered the acquisition of more clients. For something as serious as cancer treatment, any potential client of the center will research its reputation online and find this information very negative (and false). Obviously, the center must respond in some way and defend its reputation.
For more dating, this is like an old Ghostbusters movie rerun: “Who are you going to call when the internet gets nasty?” A cyberdetective, that’s who.
Frankly, for most clients, they are really distraught when they come to an internet detective agency because they have not been able to advance anywhere else.
What a competent detective can do for you is really help you understand realistic options in the first place. These options can range from identifying the attacker to establishing a chain of evidence to support the litigation and developing a case that is then suitable for local law enforcement to act.
To achieve these goals, high-tech investigators must maintain a set of software tools and skills that are simply not available to the average person, business, lawyer, or even local law enforcement. When people attack online, they typically don’t “sign their name” on the information. Therefore, although the victim may “KNOW” who is committing the attacks, they often cannot prove it. This is a role that a good licensed private detective can help you in, especially one with extensive cyber training.