INVESTIGATION BY COMPUTER

New 1998 Updated And Expanded Edition
HOW TO INVESTIGATE BY COMPUTER
By Ralph D. Thomas
A Source And Techniques Manual
Completely revised and expanded, this manual, gives you the latest sources,
know how and insight on using computers and obtaining online information.
The exciting world of online information and other computer functions for
private investigative practice is exploding and this manual gives you the
sources and shows you the techniques in using your computer as a tool to
obtain what you need to obtain with the flick of a few keys. Just updated
for 1998, this manual hands you both the sources, internet tools and search
techniques to conduct your online searching. What once took you hours, days
or weeks can now be done in a matter of minutes! This is your chance to
get the most up to date sources and techniques, not only pertaining to online
information but other investigative agency computer functions such as accident
reconstruction, forensic photography processing, time management, marketing
your services with your computer, report writing and much more.
- ONLINE INFORMATION SOURCES AND TECHNIQUES: Credit bureau reports, SSN
tracing and the Fair Credit Reporting Act. DMV information including auto
tags, driver license info and vehicle alpha traces. Public records information
including judgements, tax liens, UCC filings, state corporate filings and
much more. Criss-cross directory sources including surname searching. Newspaper
databases and other general database sources and vendors. Real property
records and other asset type searches. CD ROM sources you can purchase
and have within your office. Microfish sources and how to get them.
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- SEARCHING ON THE INTERNET: A vast assortment of internet searches you
can tap into both free based and fee based.
- ONLINE INFORMATION GATHERING FOR: Background checks, missing persons,
business intelligence, political investigations, insurance claims investigations,
premarital and pre-employment investigations, hidden assets, pre-litigation
checks and much more.
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- SEARCH STRATEGY: Expert tips and techniques for conducting the search
the right way the first time.
- OTHER BREAKTHROUGH COMPUTER TECHNIQUES: Analyze photographs in a forensic
manner with new computer image processing, study and filter audio tape
evidence, obtain accident reconstruction programs, genealogical programs,
witness identification programs, online PSE deception detection right from
your laptop and find out about a new process that can electronically age
a photograph of a person.
It's all here packed with hundreds of sources, brimming with hundreds
of tips that will save you money and keep you on the cutting edge of investigative
technology. Sample searches are given, as well as information on when to
and when not to use online information sources. Don't let this information
pass you by. Investigators who do not obtain basic online searching techniques
and other computer skills will be left with nothing but domestic cases in
the future. This extremely easy to follow manual takes you by the hand and
shows you where to go, who to see, what to ask, what to buy and not to buy,
and gives you sources for staying on top of the latest breakthrough technology
so you will stay current and up to date. Large 8 1/2 X 11, 108 pages with
33% more words than the last edition, perfect bound, with two certificates
issued in your name. The first certificate is issued in Online Searching
Techniques and the second certificate is issued in Investigative Computer
Technology. $35.00
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SECRETS OF THE SUPER SEARCHERS
THE ONLINE 100
THE PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR AND THE INTERNET
NEW UPDATED AND EXPANDED VERSION 2.0!
THE PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR'S GUIDE TO THE INTERNET
How You And Your Investigative Agency Can Tap Into One Of The
Most Powerful Influences Of This Century
By Joseph Seanor
There is a major trend happening world wide today and that trend is the
Internet. The Internet is a vast information super highway paved with goldmines
of information. Vast and massive opportunities for marketing extremely inexpensively
on the information super highway. There has been many books written on the
Internet, but none of them provide a specific focus for the professional
private investigator. As you read through this book, you'll gain power in
the form of how to market your services and how to search the vast information
available on the Internet which makes many of the typical commercial databases
available today seem extremely small and unimportant.
SUBJECTS COVERED INCLUDE
- WHAT IS THE INTERNET
- HOW DO I ACCESS THE INTERNET
- WHAT SOFTWARE DO I NEED
- SECURITY
- BASIC UNIX COMMANDS
- LOGGING IN
- EMAIL
- FTP
- TELNET
- ARCHIE
- GOPHER
- VERONICA
- WAIS
- CARL
- UNCOVER
- IRC
- FAQ: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- USENET FAQ
- MARKETING ON THE INTERNET
- MAILING LISTS
- PRIVATE-EYE MAILING LIST
- ALT.PRIVATE.INVESTIGATOR
- PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS AND PRIVACY
- THE WORLD WIDE WEB
- TRUMPET
- TIA
- MOSAIC
- NETSCAPE
- SITES ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB
- BUSINESS RESOURCES ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB
- ONLINE SERVICES FOR THE INTERNET
- GOVERNMENT SOURCES ON THE INTERNET
- LAW LIBRARY CATALOGS ON THE INTERNET
- FTP SITES ON THE INTERNET
- IRC FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- THE LEGAL LIST: FAQ
- THE PI SERVICES ROADMAP
- WEB SITES TO SURF
- CASE SEARCHING ON THE WEB
- TRUMPET WINSOCK FAQ
- USING NETSCAPE FOR THE MACINTOSH
- WAIS FAQ
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mr. Seanor knows more about the Internet than any other private investigator
in the country and he shares his expertise with you so you'll have investigative
power and marketing power you didn't even know existed! This is one of the
most important works to be published for the private investigative industry
in this century. If you don't yet understand what the Internet is or are
already on it but is puzzled by how to tap it's power for your investigative
agency, then this book is for you. New 1996 Updated Version 2.0. Still Only:
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FREE SEARCHES ON THE INTERNET
AND OTHER HIGH TECHNOLOGY FOR PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS 
By Ralph D. Thomas
With the internet sites reviewed with this book, you can fire your information
broker and information provider because many searches are now totally free
on the internet. This work reviews one hundred plus sites on the internet
that let you search databases and obtain information you need all the time
with one distinct advantage over other places to get computer searches-all
the listings are free. Aside from the free searches reviewed on the internet,
this book also exposes other new and exciting high technology such as remote
video surveillance and how it's about to end up on the internet and satellite
surveillance tracking you can use today. If you aren't yet on the Internet
this book gives you an easy, quick and painless run down on the easy steps
you need to get on the internet and how to get on it in five minutes or
less. Also covered are new types of private investigation that are starting
to emerge that involve internet and cyber tracking along with searchable
databases you can use to see if someone is on the internet, locate their
e-mail address, develop other information about them and determine if they
have a web presence. In review, this work covers:
- SUBJECT REVIEW:
- REVIEWS OF AND ACCESS TO 100 PLUS FREE SEARCHES AND PI SITES ON
THE INTERNET
- HOW TO GET ON THE INTERNET PAINLESSLY IN FIVE MINUTES OR LESS
- NEW TYPES OF INVESTIGATIONS AND HOW TO CONDUCT THEM THAT
- ARE EMERGING FROM THE NET
- SATELLITE SURVEILLANCE FOR PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS
- REVIEW OF MICRO VIDEO AND DIGITAL VIDEO TECHNOLOGY
- HOW REMOTE SURVEILLANCE IS ABOUT TO EMERGE ON THE INTERNET
This new work is MUST reading for any private investigator wanting to maintain
a cutting edge lead right now and get prepared for the vast digital shifts
that are going to have a profound impact on not only the way we conduct
investigations but the types of cases we work. Large 8 1/2 X 11, 50 pages,
photos. $29.95
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THE
ONLINE EXPERT
How To Get The Best Results With Online Searching
An Expert Guide On Improving Your Hit Rate With Computer Searches
By Ralph D. Thomas
This new manual is specifically designed to provide you with powerful and
practical information on how and when to run computer searches (and when
not to run computer searches) for locating missing persons and conducting
background investigations. You'll gain hundreds of little known secrets
on which searches are best and little things you can do to increase your
hit-rate when you go online and send money down a modem. You'll discover
the best computer searches to use and began to understand why some of them
are junk. You are shown techniques to use both online and off line that
will vastly improve the quality of information you get back. Gain insight
into the different computer searches you have available and understand the
advantages and disadvantages of each. Get a jump start on the newest and
most promising searches for locating missing persons and conducting background
investigation. Gain vast insight into credit bureau searches and understand
their advantages and disadvantages in using them for specific types of searching.
Discover tools you can utilize off line that improve your results when you
go online.
It's no longer enough to just have access to computer sources of information.
You have got to have the knowledge and the insight to know which computer
searches to run when and have the knowledge to do it correctly. Online computer
searches have become a very useful information gathering tool but without
the right kind of knowledge and insight, you can end up sending money down
a modem line with no results. This manual shows you how to stop pushing
computer keys and start utilizing computer searching from a power-user's,
results orientated approach. With NAIS certificate issued in your name in
Advanced Online Searching Strategy. $29.95
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SECRETS OF ASSETS SEARCHING
By: Ralph Thomas
Revealed in this book are different types of computer searches that will
help you conduct hidden assets investigations. Learn about access to different
types of public records searches as well as credit bureau information and
it's restrictions. Secrets of assets searching reveals: market forces and
demand for assets searches, Understanding Public Records Searching, Understanding
Credit Bureau Information and the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and understanding
and accessing individual records sources such as real property, corporate
records, vehicle, boat and aircraft registration and much more. $35.00
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YOU CAN BE AN INFORMATION SNOOP!
HOW TO MAKE IT WORKING AT HOME AS AN INFORMATION BROKER
By: CJ Bronstrup
One of the nation's most successful investigative information brokers spills
his guts on the secrets to his success in this all new work. You'll learn
the ends and outs of setting up your business correctly from the very start,
how to go about marketing your services and obtaining lots of clients but
that's just for starters. This book reveals hidden secrets of how to go
about the collection of hard-to-obtain information such as non published
telephone numbers, bank account locates as well as top information broker
techniques for quick and effective methods of locating skips, conducting
background checks, doing hidden assets searches, using computer databases,
using pretexts effectively and much more. This book is just brimming from
cover to cover with tricks, techniques and insights as well as sources of
information and other resources. 8 1/2 X 11, 207 pages. $38.00
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CUTTING EDGE COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY FOR PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS
Get A Quantum Leap On Cutting Edge Computer Technology That's About To
Change The Way You Conduct Investigations, Operate Your Business And Market
Your services
By Ralph D. Thomas
This is the first cutting edge computer book geared towards all the new
technology that is currently emerging or about to emerge. It's both a crash
course in state-of-the art computer technology and advancements over the
last few years, along with practical applications you can use now. Video,
multimedia, CD-Rom, modems and fax modems, photo computer image processing,
getting video in and out of your computer, virtual reality, 3-D Reenactment,
software reviews and grasping a basic understanding of all this new technology
is covered in easy to understand chapters. You'll even find chapters on
go-anywhere portable computers, wireless computer technology, wireless communications,
memory management, and using programs such as PhotoShop, PageMaker, And
QuickTime as investigative tools to enhance photographic evidence, surveillance
videos you take, and compile dazzling mutlimedia presentations for your
clients.
- FORENSIC APPLICATIONS: Turn still photographic evidence into digital
images you can enhance. Take surveillance video footage and digitize in
on your computer screen for forensic enhancement and presentation editing.
Create 3-D reenactments of accidents and crime screens.
- INVESTIGATIVE REPORT WRITING: Dazzle your clients with investigative
reports that place maps of surveillance sights into neighborhood descriptions.
Take I.D. freeze frames from your surveillance video and place them right
into your report. Use powerful word processors to produce publisher quality
investigative reports. Design professional investigative forms and marketing
documents for your agency.
- COMMUNICATIONS AND MARKETING: Obtain a quantum leap on modem and fax
modem technology. Fax and market right from your desktop without printing
out any hardcopies. Learn all about the new e-marketing concepts.
- HIGH TECHNOLOGY: Discover the basic high tech computer knowledge you'll
need to move along the information super highway. Learn all the basic principles
you'll need to keep your competitive advantage in the world of the digital
information explosion.
- BASIC COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE: You'll soon be grasping the basic fundamentals
of computer technology and understand the different advantages and disadvantages
of different types of computers as it relates to the investigative profession.
You'll start to understand things like memory, hard drive and computer
maintenance management and operating systems.
- ADVANCED CONCEPTS IN EASY AND FUN TO FOLLOW READING: All the newest
advancements and advancements that are just around the corner are covered.
You'll get a computer crash course in this high technology in areas of
multimedia and CD-Rom, virtual reality, QuickTime, voice and handwriting
recognition, pocket computers and PDA's and obtain reviews of computer
programs you can obtain.
No other manual provides you with the quantum leaps you'll need to remain
competitive in the high tech fast moving information age. Get the one book
on computer technology specifically written for the practicing private investigator.
With NAIS certificate issued in your name in Cutting Edge Computer Technology.
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SECRETS OF A SUPER HACKER
By: The Knightmare
Here is the most amazing book ever published on computer hacking. Step-by-Step
illustrated details on the techniques used by hackers to get your data including:
Guessing Passwords, Stealing Passwords, Password Lists, Social Engineering,
Reverse Social Engineering, Crashing Electronic Bulletin Boards, Dummy Screens,
Fake E-mail, Trojan Horses, Viruses, Worms, Trap Doors, And Much more. Anyone
concerned with computer security and data privacy needs to read this book.
8 1/2 X 11, 205 pages, $29.95
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NEW EXPANDED UPDATE MARCH 96
THE SOURCEBOOK OF PUBLIC RECORDS PROVIDERS
Online computer Services For Private Investigators
Private investigators can really expand their services with the
information in this sourcebook because is provides profiles on over 400
information providers and information vendors. Everything is covered from
basic public records providers to credit record sources to CD-ROM sources
of information to proprietary databases you can access. You'll learn about
both online networks you can tap into and alternative sources of information.
8 1/2 X 11, 300 pages. $35.00
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THE INFORMATION BROKER'S HANDBOOK
By Sue Rugge And Alfred Glossbrenner
Forward By: Reva Basch, President Independent Information Professionals
Two of the most successful and most widely known information brokers combine
forces to bring you an amazing work on entering the field of professional
information brokering. If you have a desire to provide a true research service
to business and industry and obtain high fees, this book is for you. Sue
Rugge is considered the very first information broker in the world. Mr.
Glossbrenner is a highly visible telecommunications expert. This book reveals
how you can take advantage of all the search and retrieval options including:
Online databases, CD-Roms, Electronic Bulletin Boards, Special Interest
Groups And Forms You can Tap Into, Document Delivery Services and Conventional
Library & Telephone Research.
This book is a kind of start-up manual and goes beyond just providing you
the sources and resources. You'll learn about setting up an office, purchasing
hardware and software, marketing and selling your services, pricing and
billing your services and much more. If you are really serious about breaking
into the lucrative field of information brokering, you'll want this book.
378 Pages, with a free Information Broker's Disk you can use on your computer
containing sources, contracts and business forms. $35.00
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INVESTIGATOR'S GUIDE TO CD ROM TECHNOLOGY
By Ralph D. Thomas
If you wish to stay on the cutting edge of the investigative profession
and information gathering technology, you'll want to investigate the opportunities
in utilizing CD Rom. CD Rom is a new type of computer product you can purchase
which actually creates your own in-house database. You can now obtain state-of-the-art
products that consists of fully indexed nationwide criss-cross directories,
surname searching discs, death claims indexes, magazine and newspaper indexes,
real property discs, UCC indexes, nationwide city street maps and all kinds
of other directory information. If you are thinking about adding a CD Rom
capacity to your computer, you will want this guide. If covers CD Rom products
as well as different types of disc drives and other equipment. With certificate
in CD Rom Technology. $29.95
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DIGITAL PRIVACY
A Guide To A New Kind Of Countermeasures
By M.L. Shannon
Hackers, crackers, passwords, data encryption, Van Eck monitoring, theft
prevention-here is the very latest inside info on these computer security
subjects. You'll find excellent information on data encryptions and encryption
programs as well as state-of-the art information on digital electronic eavesdropping
and countermeasures. Included is a list and review of computer security
products and programs including computer alarms, locks, gadgets, hacker
security, password and e-mail security portable computer security and much
more. A special section on the new emerging computer security law is covered.
8 1/2 X 11, 130 pages. $20.95
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