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© 2019 Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Inc. Tracing and Recovering Fraud Losses Using the Internet and Social Media to Locate People and Assets
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© 2019 Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Inc.
Tracing and Recovering
Fraud Losses
Using the Internet and Social Media to
Locate People and Assets
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Introduction
▪ Five-step approach to Internet investigations
▪ Search engines
▪ People search engines
▪ The deep Web
▪ The historical Web
▪ Social networking sites
▪ Job sites
▪ Online public records database vendors
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Five-Step Approach to
Internet Investigations
Compile everything you know about the subject.
Conduct searches on major search engines.
Search social networking sites.
Analyze the data to identify leads.
Follow each lead to find more information.
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Search Engines
▪ Popular search engines:
• www.Google.com
• www.Bing.com
• www.DuckDuckGo.com
▪ Metasearch engines
▪ Successful Internet searching:
• Google operators
• Bing operators
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Google Search Settings
Settings
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Google Search Settings
Turn off
Instant
Turn off
filtering
Change to
100 results
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Google OperatorsThis search Finds pages containing …
cooking Italian the words cooking and Italian
vegetarian OR vegan information on vegetarian or vegan
“Can I get a witness” the exact phrase “Can I get a witness”
Henry +8 Great Britain information about Henry the Eighth (8), weeding out other kings of Great Britain
automobiles ~glossary glossaries about automobiles, plus dictionaries, lists of terms, terminology
salsa -dance the word salsa but NOT the word dance (note the space before the hyphen)
salsa-dancer all forms of the term, whether spelled as a single word, a phrase, or hyphenated (note the lack of a space)
define:congo definitions of the word Congo from the Web
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Google Alerts
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Other Google Features
▪ Beyond Web searching, Google also searches:
Images
Videos
Maps
News
Books
Products
Translations
Documents
Calendars
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Bing
▪ Microsoft’s search
engine offers
robust results.
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Bing’s Search Options
▪ Search box accepts up to 150 characters.
▪ Results increase with quotations and names.
▪ Boolean language “or” and “not” is permitted.
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Other Bing Features
▪ Ongoing history
▪ Related queries and recommendations
▪ Displays results in context
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People Search Engines
▪ Pipl
www.pipl.com
▪ PeekYou
www.peekyou.com
▪ Radaris
radaris.com
▪ Yatedo
www.yatedo.com
▪ WebMii
www.webmii.com
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The Deep Web
▪ The deep Web (also
known as the invisible
Web) refers to Web
content that is not part
of the Web indexed by
standard search
engines.
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The Historical Web
▪ The historical Web refers to archived pages
that have been updated or are no longer
available.
▪ The most popular tool for searching the
historical Web is the Wayback Machine
(www.archive.org).
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Social Network Sites
▪ Social networking websites are sites that use
software to build online social networks for
communities of people with shared interests.
▪ Examiners can use social media to:
• Investigate complaints.
• Discover and learn about potential witnesses.
• Research the accused.
• Learn about the accusers.
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Social Network Sites
▪ Popular social networking
sites:
• Blogs
▪ Searching social
networking sites
▪ Privacy issues
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Job Sites
▪ If the examiner knows
where the subject
works, they can obtain
the subject’s contact
information by
tracking down the
subject’s company or
industry.
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Online Public Records Database Vendors
▪ Online public records database vendors
provide users access to archives of data that
compile various public records in one
searchable database.
▪ Some common vendors include:
DCS
Information
Systems
G.A. Public
Records
Services
IRBsearch Kompass
Dun &
BradstreetinfoUSA CSC SkyMinder
Clear LexisNexis
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Finding a Website’s Server Location
▪ Examiners can also
determine where a
website’s server is
located using a trace-
route site such as
www.visualroute.com or
www.yougetsignal.com.
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Tips for Conducting Internet Searches
▪ Set a time limit to avoid losing track of time.
▪ Develop a collection plan.
▪ Prioritize your search.
▪ Keep a list of the keywords you use in your
search.
▪ Skim, do not read, your search results.
