Author: seamusmanley
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The Rise of Online Investment Scams — What We Saw in 2016
By 2016, online investment scams had evolved far beyond simple email fraud. Fraudsters were now creating sophisticated fake trading websites—interfaces designed to mimic real broker dashboards, complete with animated charts, “profit” readouts, and staged transaction histories. For many victims, these platforms appeared legitimate at first…
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Why We Formalized Our Financial Investigations Practice
When we started in 1999, it served several different parts of our early investigative work. But by 2015, one trend became undeniable: families and individuals were increasingly encountering complex online financial issues that traditional private investigators were not equipped to handle.