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November 26, 2013 by Private Investigator Greensboro

Is Your Cell Phone Bugged?

Is Your Cell Phone Bugged? This is a question many Client’s ask Advanced Technology Investigations, LLC each day. Our Agency is certified in Digital Forensics and specialize in the area of Network intrusion detection, spyware detection, as well as conducting Forensics on computers and cell phones.

There are many websites on the internet that advertise “Spyware” to listen in on conversations, intercept text messages, phone calls, emails, your location, and many more scary items with your cell phone. Some companies promote this spyware as monitoring for your children, or to spy on your cheating spouse. There are also several websites that say you can remotely install the spyware without physically having the cell phone.

Our Investigators have tested some of these spywares on our own phones to see if it really works like the websites say it does. Our results are that the websites that say you can install it remotely are wrong. What these companies don’t tell you is what you will find in the fine print after you purchase the product. Smart phones today have security features built into the settings that keeps someone from just randomly downloading spyware to your cell phone remotely. We found that you physically have to have the phone in your possession in order to install the spyware and hide the spyware apps that are included with the spyware. We also know that if it is an Android cell phone that the phone has to be “Rooted” to allow a third party application to be installed, and if its an iPhone, then the cell phone has to be jailbroken in order for a third party application to be installed to the iphone.

So, with the testing we discovered that the spyware one installed on the cell phone does work. But don’t be fooled in the websites stating that it cannot be found! The Forensic tools our Agency at Advanced Technology Investigations, LLC has and uses daily WILL FIND SPYWARE. Also know that the interception of electronic communication is a Felony. So, if you suspect your cell phone has had spyware installed on it, give us a call Today at 336-298-1556.

November 25, 2013 by Private Investigator Greensboro

FREE Investigation Tips Using Online Tools

Free Investigation Tips Using Online Tools – Advanced Technology Investigations, LLC is located in Greensboro, NC and serves Client’s in the Greensboro, High Point, and Winston Salem triad areas. Our Private Investigators will travel to any place in North Carolina during the course of your Investigation as well as other States across the USA.

Many of our Client’s come to us after they have exhausted their attempts to locate and identify a person in their situation. Below, we have put together some FREE online tools in which anyone can use to help you with your own research that may save you money with your case. Please note that any online website that says FREE, is most likely old data, but depending on what you are looking for, it may reveal exactly what you are looking for.

Often we forget about some of the simple lookup tools, like www.whitepages.com. White pages is a great tool to do a reverse address, reverse phone search, and it gives you other bonuses like other persons listed at the address, and an age range.

The next tool our Greensboro Private Investigators recommends is the website www.zabasearch.com. Zabasearch is a little more comprehensive in the results it returns, and it has an advanced search function in which you can be specific with what you are looking for. I have found that zabasearch returns results that can be very useful such as date/year of birth, address, address history, phone numbers, and middle initials. Even though the results are similar to White Pages, you get a few extras that can give you more solid results. Below is an example of what you will see with a search with zabasearch.

Tom H Smith More Info on Tom H Smith Check for Email Address Google
1313 Mockinbird ln
Siler City, NC 27344 (919) xxx-xxxx Confirm Current Phone & Address
Background Check on Tom H Smith

Tom J Smith More Info on Tom J Smith Check for Email Address Google
300 No Street Ter
Greensboro, NC 27403 (336) xxx-xxxx Confirm Current Phone & Address
Background Check on Tom J Smith

Tom S Smith More Info on Tom S Smith Check for Email Address Google
552 Better Goto Church Rd
Princeton, NC 27569 (910) xxx-xxxx Confirm Current Phone & Address
Background Check on Tom S Smith

Conducting your research before you come to your Investigator can save you some money, but always have your Investigator to verify the information you have found to make sure it is not outdated. An Investigation take team work, and our Greensboro Private Investigators at Advanced Technology Investigations, LLC are glad to be YOUR one source Private Investigator.

November 10, 2013 by Private Investigator Greensboro

Google Search Tips

Google Search Tips – How many times have you conducted a search on google and it returned over a million results? It can be quite frustrating to pick and choose from those million results to find what you are looking for. Today, I’m going to give you some google search tips to help make your task much easier. At Advanced Technology Investigations we conduct internet searches most every day using advanced google searches as one of our many tools to quickly find useful information in the coarse of our investigations.

Google searches have many algorithms that return results depending on what you plug into the search box. The more you can tell google about what you are looking for, the better the results that will be returned. Think about the things that are going through your mind as you are thinking about your search, also think about the terms that may be similar that you may want to NOT show up in your results. Google will allow you to be as specific or as broad as you want to search, so with that in mind lets look at some terms and methods to help get your search targeted.

“office supplies greensboro” When you want to narrow down a search to give you broad but defined topic try putting your term or phrase in parentheses.

Site: office depot.com – If you only want to search a specific website, then start your search with the term “site:” in from of the website you want to search.

sticky notes site: officedepot.com– Now include what you are looking for in front of the word “site:” then include the specific website you would like to search from.

related: starting your search with “related:” will return results related to the word or phrase of your search.

link: If you are looking for a link to get you to someplace specific, just add “link:” before your search term.

phone: john_doe – Looking for a phone number of someone on the internet, no problem, just use “phone:” before the name your looking for.

intitle: A specific title can be easily found with the function “intitle:”

cache: – Cache is a page that google took a snapshot of on an earlier date that may show you information that may not exist on the website today.

+ – Putting the plus or minus sign in front of your search term will exclude words using the minus, and include all words with the plus sign.

left or right – Adding the word “OR” between two words can be useful if your trying to find out which similar term will return the most relevant results you are searching for.

I hope this short tutorial will make your searches on Google much more productive for you. Here is a link from Google that can help you remember some of the most used advanced search methods to assist you. http://www.google.com/advanced_search

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conducts internet investigations involving skip tracing, Cyber Investigations, and information intelligence for many varied types of cases. If your case needs the assistance of a Professional Private Investigator in the Greensboro NC triad are, just give us a call at 336-298-1556.

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