Common Reasons Why People Recover Deleted Text Messages

There are many reasons why a person may have to send their cell phone to a cellular forensic consultant to retrieve deleted text messages. But it seems that there a few reasons that are the most common.

1. Infidelity Investigations Almost everyone is suspicious of their spouse or lover. They also suspect their partner is cheating on the,.They want to snoop in their spouses cell phone text messages but their partner deletes all the texts before they get the chance. Initially they want to read the texts but after finding out all the kinds of data that can be recovered and documented they want to see everything. Like location tracking reports, deleted pics, call logs and calendar, date book.

2. Criminal Defense A criminal defendant is accused of making text threats or violating a TPO and they need to document the exact content of the text messages they sent or received. Also drug conspiracy cases, or alibi evidence. Proving you were at one place when you are accused of being at another place.

3. Civil Litigation Today many contracts or business deals are negotiated over text messages and emails sent and received from mobile devices. A forensic examination can recover and document the exact language used in negotiations or agreement.

4. Clearing Your Name Often a client will be accused of inappropriate texting or sending inappropriate pictures. A forensic examination will recover the evidence to prove your innocence and clear your name.

5. Employee Misbehavior or Theft The owner of a business may need to check up on employee behavior or possible theft investigation, location tracking etc. A yearly check up on an employees phone can show who's working hard and who's stealing.

6 Teen Misbehavior Parents like to check up on their teens and see where they have been, who they are communicating with, possible drug, sex or alcohol abuse. Teens are especially likely to send and receive sexually explicit pictures. Remember an under age child receiving sexually explicit pics is still guilty of possessing child porn. A quarterly check up on a kid's phone can save a kids life.

7. Accidental Deletion Sometimes people accidentally deleted important information from their device and they desperately need to recover the deleted data. A forensic examination can recover important text or sentimental pics from a phone. Even if the screen is cracked or the phone is otherwise damaged.

If any of these reasons apply to you be sure to consult with a cellular forensic consultant to examine your phone in a professional manner.

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How Do Police Investigate Cyber Bully Cases?

Have you ever wondered how police in real life trace emails and locate and identify cyber stalkers? Is it really like they show on those TV CSI cop shows? Unfortunately no, in real life there are many limitations on local police when it comes to locating and identifying cyber stalkers. On tv you'll see a high tech computer crimes lab full of expensive equipment and manned with dozens of officers. In reality a local police dept computer crimes unit may be as small as one officer and one computer.

Wen a victim of a cyber bully becomes concerned about their safety and well being they will usually turn to the local police dept. Once the local police take that compliant several things may happen. hey may choose not to investigate further thinking that it is not a serious enough threat to devote manpower and recourses to investigate further.

If they do deem it a serious threat they may assign your case to an investigator, perhaps in their computer crimes unit or maybe just an investigator that normally investigates harassment and stalking cases.If the crime crosses over state lines they may refer your case to a federal agency such as the FBI to investigate. depending on the nature of the threat and other factors.

But the typical response by any law enforcement is usually the same. They will investigate the incoming email threat by opening up the headers and obtaining the IP address from within the header. Then they will take that information and use a common tool like samspade.org or dnsstuff.com to run the IP address through a"whois" feature and discover what Internet Service Provider (ISP) is associated with IP Address or Internet Protocol Address.

At this stage of the investigation law enforcement has a huge advantage because they can take the documented threat or harassment in the form of an email and present it to a judge as probable cause to issue a search warrant. That warrant will be served upon the Custodian of Records of the ISP, They will be compelled to turn over detailed information about the billing, location and activity of that person or people associated with at IP Address.

The problem for law enforcement at this stage is proving who that actual person was physically at the keyboard at the time the alleged crime took place. The suspect can claim he was not there that day, that many people borrow the computer or that several people live at the address and they call share the computer. This is why it's so difficult for law enforcement to make arrests and prosecute these kids of cases without getting a confession from the suspect. Unfortunately it's not as high tech and quick as you see on TV crime shows where to police are able to use some type of computer program to instantly identify a person from an email or IP address.

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Useful Email Tracing Tips

If you have been on the internet for any amount of time you probably receive many emails. It is the number one reason people use the internet. Normally you do not need to know where the email came from exactly, but you do want to know who sent it. Most people just check the sender email to make sure they know the email address that sent it and then they don't worry about it anymore.

However, there could be a time that you need to figure out exactly where an email came from. When this is the case you need to know how to trace email directly to the sender. There are a couple of different ways that you can do this. You just need to make sure that you choose the right method to get the information you need. So here are some ways that you can trace email back to the sender.

You can sign up with a website that offers this service. Normally there is a one time charge that will cost you some money. It isn't very expensive either.

If you would rather to it yourself you can. There are guides online that you can get a tutorial to help you figure out how to trace email. When you want to find an email address it is not hard to do but you will need some help the first time you try it. Once you have done it a few times you will find it easy. It doesn't matter why you need to trace email to the sender but you need to make sure you decide the best way for you to do it. Before you decide look into how to trace email. If you have never tried to find an email address before you will want to learn how to do it before you try.

Otherwise, you might end up messing up something on your computer unless you are a computer whiz.

If you don't want to sign up for this service or you are not comfortable doing it yourself you can always find a friend or family member to do it for you. It is important to understand how to trace email the right way before you attempt it. So come up with the best way to locate an email address. You will be glad you did when you are able to find the address that you are looking for.

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How Can I Trace an Email Address Back To The Sender?

By Ed Opperman

I'm a private investigator and see this question asked online everyday. Usually some nice normal person going about their life has received a disturbing email. They do not recognize the sender and they want to identify exactly who the email sender is. The email could be something small like "I don't like the way you coach the little league team" or it could be something serious like "I'm sleeping with your husband". It could be defamatory accusation that was sent to you and CC'd to a hundred people you know or work with. So you can see the reasons for wanting to trace an email account vary greatly in subject and seriousness. That makes my job interesting.

Now usually when I see the question "How Can I Trace an Email?" the reply is a something along these lines: First you need to obtain the email headers by going into your email account and clicking on your settings. Then you need to get the IP address from the headers and run a trace on that to find the senders ISP.

Well that's great advice if you want to find out the senders Internet Service Provider but usually they want to find out who the heck says they're sleeping with their husband! My next problem with this advice is that it can return very misleading information. For instance when you are examining a header you will find the senders IP address but you will also find your own. In fact it appears the information in the header is somewhat reversed and it is incredible easy for a novice attempting to examine a header to wind up tracing their own IP address and not the senders.

When a person asks "How can I trace an Email" they really want to know how to identify the sender of the email. Many times the question is being answered by a computer expert more interested in technical IP#s and not a professional investigator interested in locating and identifying a real person. So to answer the question in the spirit of how it was asked is an entirely different answer. In fact I don't believe it could be answered in the average question and answer section of the average "How To" site.

The simple answer is to perform an reverse email search in various free online reverse email look up sites. If it's not there or it's obviously fictitious information then move on.

Next you can try to put the email address in the search engine and see if anything turns up there. If you have tried these methods and still need an answer you need to hire a professional at finding people and someone who specializes in email tracing and online investigations.

There are more and more professional investigators that have taken the time and expense to educate themselves of the subject and get the proper training to conduct this type of investigation. But you must beware of the online sleuth software scams that promise miraculous results. If you are going to hire a professional do your homework and due diligence. A professional email trace report can take weeks to complete. So you can't expect some online instant search to provide you the accurate information you require.

The author has over 10 years experience in tracking down and identifying cyber criminals. He has expanded and developed these internet tracing skills into the areas of catching cheating spouses online and locating runaway kids or dangerous bail jumpers with only an email address or screen name.

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Evidence Of Internet Porn Addiction in Child Custody Litigation

By Ed Opperman

What do you do if you decide to divorce your husband due to his addiction to Internet pornography. He gets liberal visitation and now your children are being exposed to Internet porn but now completely out of your supervision?

This is a very common problem. You discover your spouse has an addiction to porn and extreme fetish porn at that. You make the difficult decision to leave him but now he has unsupervised visitation with the minor children and you fear the children are exposed to the perverted material.

According to one study, early exposure (under fourteen years of age) to pornography is related to greater involvement in deviant sexual practice, particularly rape. Slightly more than one-third of the child molesters and rapists in this study claimed to have at least occasionally been incited to commit an offense by exposure to pornography. Among the child molesters incited, the study reported that 53 percent of them deliberately used the stimuli of pornography as they prepared to offend.

The habitual consumption of pornography can result in a diminished satisfaction with mild forms of pornography and a correspondingly strong desire for more deviant and violent material.

In a study of convicted child molesters, 77 percent of those who molested boys and 87 percent of those who molested girls admitted to the habitual use of pornography in the commission of their crimes. Besides stimulating the perpetrator, pornography facilitates child molestation in several ways. For example, pedophiles use pornographic photos to demonstrate to their victims what they want them to do. They also use them to arouse a child or to lower a child's inhibitions and communicate to the unsuspecting child that a particular sexual activity is okay: "This person is enjoying it; so will you."

There is a solution. If you can demonstrate to the court conclusively that the parent has an addiction to Internet porn the court can make orders in relation to that threat that will protect your children from that exposure. They could order anything from no visits to supervised visits to orders prohibiting the mere presence of a computer in the home.

It is surprisingly easy to obtain evidence of Internet pornography and interest in extreme sexual fetishes. You can hire a private investigator that specializes in this very specific field of Internet investigation. What they do is take your husbands email address and locate that email on extreme fetish dating services, porn sites and escort service sites. Then your lawyer can subpoena the records of those sites to determine the level of the activity your husband is involved with on those perverted sites. The times could easily overlap with court ordered times of visitation. Dramatically demonstrating he is unfit to care for the children.

If you decide to hire an investigator for this kind os search be sure that they are considered an expert in online Internet and pornography investigations. Do a Google search to see if they are recognized as an expert in this field. If you want to go this route you want to be sure it's done right the first time.

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