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HOW TO DO FINANCIAL ASSET
INVESTIGATIONS:
A Practical Guide for Private Investigators,
Collections Personnel, And Asset Recovery Specialists.
By Ronald L. Mendell
Softcover
240 pages
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How
to do Financial Asset Investigations: A Practical Guide for
Private Investigators, Collections Personnel, And Asset Recovery
Specialists, by Ronald Menden.
DESCRIPTION
The overall theme of this edition is for investigators to "Obey the Law." With
the concerns over privacy and identity theft continuing to impact the investigations
industry, investigators must obey new laws and adhere to new standards of conduct.
In response, this edition covers the issue of identity theft and offers investigative
techniques that will be sensitive to current and future legislation. The key
to asset investigations in a privacy-conscious era is to become an excellent
database and web-based information researcher with emphasis on using open sources
(many of them available through the Internet) and on analytical methods to gain
maximum information from those sources. Compliance with the Graham-Leach-Bliley
Act of 1999 is encouraged, with explanations on how its financial privacy provisions
impact investigators. The text explains data gathering from computer databases,
CD-ROM, human sources, surveillance, public records, including intelligence gathering
techniques and their role in financial assets investigations. The topics cover
both individuals and businesses. They range from obtaining subjects' basic identifiers,
such as a social security number, to using key business ratios to calculate figures
for a company's balance sheet. Financial investigation for security officers,
piercing the corporate veil, news groups, public record searching shortcuts,
and learning how to exploit information trails and cutting through smoke screens
are examined. Throughout the book, useful forms are provided for gathering, organizing,
and analyzing data which allows for easy integration of information. This book
serves as a practical primer for emphasizing the use of data collection forms,
the latest computer technology, and tools for identifying, locating, and a TABLE
OF CONTENTS
Preface
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction
Identity Theft and Privacy Issues
Computers and Using the Internet
Coming up in other Chapters
Summary
Chapter
1. OBTAINING THE IDENTIFIERS
2. IDENTIFYING RELATIVES AND ASSOCIATES
3. BASIC SOURCES FOR INDIVIDUALS
4. INFORMATION BROKERS AND OTHER SOURCES
5. VISITING THE SUBJECT’S PREMISES
6. ADVANCED SOURCES FOR INDIVIDUALS
7. FINDING HIDDEN ASSETS
8. BASIC BUSINESS ASSET SEARCH
9. THE PLANT VISIT
10. ADVANCED SOURCES FOR BUSINESSES
11. RECORDING DATA AND REPORTING TO THE CLIENT
12. A FICTIONAL PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION
13. INVESTIGATING USING THE INTERNET AND OTHER SOURCES
14. INTELLIGENCE GATHERING IN THE AGE OF IDENTITY THEFT
Appendix: Investigative Pathfinder
Selected Bibliography
Index
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