Denver Colorado - December 21, 2009 – Opperman Investigations, an online investigation company specializing in identifying extramarital activity on the internet, has added asset searches to their investigative tool chest. Opperman’s asset investigations, available through their website at www.emailrevealer.com, provide creditors and individuals going through a divorce an effective legal channel to locate unclaimed or hidden assets to satisfy back debts, to aid with divorce litigation, and to help with collection on child support payments.
Prior to 1999, asset searches were significantly easier than they are today. While legislation passed that year was hailed as a step in the right direction for consumer protection, Ed Opperman, the owner of EmailRevealer.com, shares how these changes affected the private investigation field -
“Consumer complaints about privacy triggered lawmakers to enact new legislation. After these changes to privacy laws, many investigators were no longer able to conduct asset searches in strict compliance with the Drivers Protection Privacy Act (DPPA), Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), and Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA).
This is mainly due to a reliance on pretexting to obtain financial information. They [investigators] would call the financial institutions and impersonate the actual account holder to obtain the financial information.”
Pretexting, which was a popular tool for investigators trying to locate account types, account numbers, and balances on behalf of their clients, was suddenly off the table. While this did curb the effectiveness of asset searches, specifically those relating to financial accounts held by the individual being investigated, Mr. Opperman’s investigative services have apparently discovered a way to locate financial information about account holders using GLBA-compliant methods. Opperman continues, “[we have] developed legal methods to obtain banking information including the banks where accounts are held. This information in conjunction with subpoena power can locate exact account numbers and balances.”
Opperman’s asset investigation services purportedly can find assets including vehicles, real estate, property, bank accounts, and investment accounts.
About EmailRevealer.com
EmailRevealer.com is an online investigation service specializing in identifying extramarital activity online, though their investigative services provide a wide array of investigation tools – For more information on Opperman Investigations, or to have them review your case, visit their website at http://www.emailrevealer.com
Saturday, January 16, 2010
How To Perform Your Own Reverse Email Lookups
You've probably spent a lot of time, probably too much time in fact, chasing down the elusive free reverse email lookup service. We'll save you some time and hassle right now -- they don't exist. Sure, there are websites that will let you search for an email address for free, but none that we know of that give much in the way of usable results without a one time, or even monthly charge to your credit card. So, instead of spending a full-time work week searching for a free service, which is kind of ironic when you think about it, here are some tips that may help you to identify some information about the sender of an email address on your own.
Performing your own reverse email search services - tools you need
These methods that we'll outline only require two things -- an email address and a search engine. We're not going to get into how to dissect email headers as that's too difficult for the average computer user, and well beyond the scope of a single article.
Dissecting an email address
For this simple DIY reverse email lookup experiment, we're going to use the first part of the email address -- the part that comes before the 'at' sign (@). While the email server itself, or the part of the email address after the 'at' symbol, can give you some information about a user, such as their ISP or their place of employment, we're going to focus on the username portion of the email only.
Simple DIY reverse email search
Let's say that the email address you're looking into is wickerjosh43@yahoo.com. So, you'll take the wickerjosh43 part and plug that into Google or Bing. Yahoo may work as well, but Google and Bing tend to produce the best results. In some cases, though not too many, a simple search may be all you need to discover the real name, geographic region, or background information on a person behind an email address. Now, you'll need to be able to understand how to interpret results that you receive, but you can find a lot of information about some people using their email address username alone.
Alternative to using Google for reverse email searches
While there are a small handful of websites that allow you to perform username lookups, probably one of the most reliable is pipl.com. Using the username search at the aforementioned website, just plugin the email address' username, such as wickerjosh43 as we used above, and see if pipl.com produces any results. Again, you'll have to be able to interpret any results that you might receive through these DIY reverse email searches, but if you can, you can find out some real information on the person behind an email address all by yourself.
If the results of these do it yourself reverse email address lookup campaigns aren't giving you any results, or the results are too cryptic for you to decipher, you should consider purchasing reverse email address research services. Forget about the purported-to-be-but-aren't-really-free reverse lookup websites and find an online investigation company that offers comprehensive email address investigations for a decent price. While hiring an investigator certainly isn't free, even to perform a reverse email search service, if you really need to know who's behind an email address, using this kind of service gives you the best chances of finding what you're looking for.
Performing your own reverse email search services - tools you need
These methods that we'll outline only require two things -- an email address and a search engine. We're not going to get into how to dissect email headers as that's too difficult for the average computer user, and well beyond the scope of a single article.
Dissecting an email address
For this simple DIY reverse email lookup experiment, we're going to use the first part of the email address -- the part that comes before the 'at' sign (@). While the email server itself, or the part of the email address after the 'at' symbol, can give you some information about a user, such as their ISP or their place of employment, we're going to focus on the username portion of the email only.
Simple DIY reverse email search
Let's say that the email address you're looking into is wickerjosh43@yahoo.com. So, you'll take the wickerjosh43 part and plug that into Google or Bing. Yahoo may work as well, but Google and Bing tend to produce the best results. In some cases, though not too many, a simple search may be all you need to discover the real name, geographic region, or background information on a person behind an email address. Now, you'll need to be able to understand how to interpret results that you receive, but you can find a lot of information about some people using their email address username alone.
Alternative to using Google for reverse email searches
While there are a small handful of websites that allow you to perform username lookups, probably one of the most reliable is pipl.com. Using the username search at the aforementioned website, just plugin the email address' username, such as wickerjosh43 as we used above, and see if pipl.com produces any results. Again, you'll have to be able to interpret any results that you might receive through these DIY reverse email searches, but if you can, you can find out some real information on the person behind an email address all by yourself.
If the results of these do it yourself reverse email address lookup campaigns aren't giving you any results, or the results are too cryptic for you to decipher, you should consider purchasing reverse email address research services. Forget about the purported-to-be-but-aren't-really-free reverse lookup websites and find an online investigation company that offers comprehensive email address investigations for a decent price. While hiring an investigator certainly isn't free, even to perform a reverse email search service, if you really need to know who's behind an email address, using this kind of service gives you the best chances of finding what you're looking for.
Friday, December 25, 2009
Spying on Your Spouse’s Computer? What Digital Evidence Means for the Future of Divorce
Aaron Dishon asked:
Like many other things in our lives, technology has changed the face of divorce forever. Whether text messages, cell phone records or email messages, digital evidence has increasingly become part of nearly every contentious divorce case and/or custody issue. With people relying more and more on digital communication and paperless transmissions, the computer has become an even more integral part of daily life.
A recent poll conducted by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers found that 88 percent of its members surveyed had seen a “dramatic increase” in such evidence. Statistics from many electronic discovery and computer forensics firms indicate that more than a third of electronic discovery cases are divorce-related. In divorce, digital evidence can be the most damning in terms of financial deceit/disclosure and/or ex-marital affairs. The evidence can be devastating.
Employing a private investigator isn’t the only way to gather evidence in divorce or child custody proceedings anymore. Valid and dependable methods to recover data from computers as part of discovery in divorce proceedings are becoming essential for divorce lawyers. This is particularly true in cases with larger estates, complicated business or real estate holdings or multi-jurisdictional assets. Snooping through files, staking out hotel rooms and snapping photos have been replaced with forensic hard drive examinations, key logging and sophisticated software tracking programs which often provide more concrete and excuse-proof evidence. And, there’s more. There are newer technologies also being used to collect evidence against spouses. Cell phone records are almost always admissible in divorce court, E-Z pass toll records have been subpoenaed to catch cheaters in lies and GPS devices have been sneakily applied to vehicles by suspicious spouses in order to track one’s whereabouts.
IN light of this new time of evidence, it’s critical to hire an attorney and computer forensic expert capable of finding critical information and effectively presenting it in court.
A forensic analysis can serve as a valuable tool in high conflict california divorce cases where there is suspicion of wealth transfers or prove infidelity. Information that can be obtained can include:
e-mail and instant messages
user names and passwords;
names and addresses of financial institutions
asset and/or fund transfers;
debt information and account activity
Recovering deleted, encrypted, or damaged file information.
What many people don’t realize is that deleted information is never truly deleted. Re-formatting the hard drive of a computer does not erase stored data; it usually just erases the links that point to where the data can be located. And the harsh reality is that in many instances, the most important evidence is proof that there was the attempt to destroy data. The consequences of discovering undisclosed assets or other relevant information in divorce can be profound. The party that fails to disclose the asset during the divorce process may be required to pay attorney’s fees turn over the asset to the other party or to the court in a receivership proceeding in addition to calling into question that party’s credibility in the proceedings. Actively pursing this avenue of investigation may be the difference between losing out on significant assets or uncovering a plethora of financial information including investments and real estate holdings even if they are held in the name of another person or sheltered as part of a holding company.
For example, in one particular divorce proceeding that I handled, discovery was served to acquire financial records and emails related to one spouse’s income derived from his business. It was later discovered through emails from this spouse to his business partners, that he was funneling significant funds from the business to three different people as well as a dummy corporation in order to get around reporting the income.
In another case, discovery was used to prove infidelity. This is becoming a more common practice in highly contentious custody proceedings because this evidence can be used to prove one spouse’s priorities are with this “personal relationship” rather than with their children. Another use for electronic discovery in custody issues is using a computer’s search history to prove discrepancies in one spouse’s lifestyle including such behaviors as gambling and pornography.
The digital path left by cheating or financially deceitful spouses provide evidence so powerful, it can’t be denied. The law is struggling to keep up with new technology. The divorce laws in many states are evolving to accommodate the increase of evidence extracted from computer hard drives, but the legal bounds are arguably still unclear. Family court judges are faced with tough decisions about the legality of such evidence and in the absence of established laws in certain states addressing digital evidence; they are forced to make difficult judgment calls about what constitutes a violation of privacy.
Divorce is very common in today’s legal landscape and electronic discovery continues to play a critical role. High stakes battles over marriage settlements and child custody arrangements make each attorney’s strategy the key to an optimum outcome.
Like many other things in our lives, technology has changed the face of divorce forever. Whether text messages, cell phone records or email messages, digital evidence has increasingly become part of nearly every contentious divorce case and/or custody issue. With people relying more and more on digital communication and paperless transmissions, the computer has become an even more integral part of daily life.
A recent poll conducted by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers found that 88 percent of its members surveyed had seen a “dramatic increase” in such evidence. Statistics from many electronic discovery and computer forensics firms indicate that more than a third of electronic discovery cases are divorce-related. In divorce, digital evidence can be the most damning in terms of financial deceit/disclosure and/or ex-marital affairs. The evidence can be devastating.
Employing a private investigator isn’t the only way to gather evidence in divorce or child custody proceedings anymore. Valid and dependable methods to recover data from computers as part of discovery in divorce proceedings are becoming essential for divorce lawyers. This is particularly true in cases with larger estates, complicated business or real estate holdings or multi-jurisdictional assets. Snooping through files, staking out hotel rooms and snapping photos have been replaced with forensic hard drive examinations, key logging and sophisticated software tracking programs which often provide more concrete and excuse-proof evidence. And, there’s more. There are newer technologies also being used to collect evidence against spouses. Cell phone records are almost always admissible in divorce court, E-Z pass toll records have been subpoenaed to catch cheaters in lies and GPS devices have been sneakily applied to vehicles by suspicious spouses in order to track one’s whereabouts.
IN light of this new time of evidence, it’s critical to hire an attorney and computer forensic expert capable of finding critical information and effectively presenting it in court.
A forensic analysis can serve as a valuable tool in high conflict california divorce cases where there is suspicion of wealth transfers or prove infidelity. Information that can be obtained can include:
e-mail and instant messages
user names and passwords;
names and addresses of financial institutions
asset and/or fund transfers;
debt information and account activity
Recovering deleted, encrypted, or damaged file information.
What many people don’t realize is that deleted information is never truly deleted. Re-formatting the hard drive of a computer does not erase stored data; it usually just erases the links that point to where the data can be located. And the harsh reality is that in many instances, the most important evidence is proof that there was the attempt to destroy data. The consequences of discovering undisclosed assets or other relevant information in divorce can be profound. The party that fails to disclose the asset during the divorce process may be required to pay attorney’s fees turn over the asset to the other party or to the court in a receivership proceeding in addition to calling into question that party’s credibility in the proceedings. Actively pursing this avenue of investigation may be the difference between losing out on significant assets or uncovering a plethora of financial information including investments and real estate holdings even if they are held in the name of another person or sheltered as part of a holding company.
For example, in one particular divorce proceeding that I handled, discovery was served to acquire financial records and emails related to one spouse’s income derived from his business. It was later discovered through emails from this spouse to his business partners, that he was funneling significant funds from the business to three different people as well as a dummy corporation in order to get around reporting the income.
In another case, discovery was used to prove infidelity. This is becoming a more common practice in highly contentious custody proceedings because this evidence can be used to prove one spouse’s priorities are with this “personal relationship” rather than with their children. Another use for electronic discovery in custody issues is using a computer’s search history to prove discrepancies in one spouse’s lifestyle including such behaviors as gambling and pornography.
The digital path left by cheating or financially deceitful spouses provide evidence so powerful, it can’t be denied. The law is struggling to keep up with new technology. The divorce laws in many states are evolving to accommodate the increase of evidence extracted from computer hard drives, but the legal bounds are arguably still unclear. Family court judges are faced with tough decisions about the legality of such evidence and in the absence of established laws in certain states addressing digital evidence; they are forced to make difficult judgment calls about what constitutes a violation of privacy.
Divorce is very common in today’s legal landscape and electronic discovery continues to play a critical role. High stakes battles over marriage settlements and child custody arrangements make each attorney’s strategy the key to an optimum outcome.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
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