Missing Person's Investigations

Just a quick note, if you are thinking of trying to locate a missing loved one or friend, please do not inform their families you are hiring us or anyone else to locate them, especially right before Christmas.  Yesterday, it took me about an hour to locate a missing mother; however, she was deceased.  I had explained to the client that is a real possibility.  The mother had passed away under suspicious circumstances in TX.  That is not good news to share with her family anytime.  She had been reported missing in 2003.  What I have not researched is why law enforcement and/or medical examiner did not notify her family at the time of her death.    www.nwseattledetective.com

Due Diligence

A client of ours, agreed I could discuss and summarize her case.  She wanted others to know the importance of a proper objective due diligence investigation and in her case one coupled with a divorce proceeding.  She and her, now ex husband, owned a large corporation together.  Their accountant agreed to do the forensic accounting and their attorney agreed to handle the divorce as well as the division of the corporation. 

Two huge problems with this, the accountant and attorney were college friends of the husband.  A family friend had discussed with the wife that an independent attorney, forensic accountant and corporate private investigator should be assigned to handle this extensive case.  The wife was referred to us, but did not contact us.  What could go wrong? The attorney and accountant children went to school with my client's children.  They spent holidays together. 

The forensic accountant provided documentation that the company was only worth six-million dollars.  The wife signed off on this as well as the divorce paper work.  She received half of the company; however, only an initial 1.5 million cash with a $100,000 payment each year thereafter.  Exactly one year later, the husband sold the company for 15 million dollars cash.  We were able to confirm that the husband had been orchestrating the sale of the corporation before he told the wife he was banging the nanny. 

We confirmed the accountant and the attorney had been in on the deal.  Clearly this would never have happened if the wife would have hired us, even independently just to review the process as far as asset assessment and management aspect.  We brought our case investigation packet to a law firm we work with along with the client.  Our forensic accountant reviewed the original materials prepared by the forensic accountant.  There was no legal action she could take and to make matters worse, the husband had been mailing the client 1099 forms each year; however, had not actually paid her any money.  She was paying taxes on income she never received. 

This entire scenario would never had played out this way if the wife had contacted us and we certainly would have able to identify the husband was cheating on the wife long before he admitted to his love for the nanny.  She could have had the upper hand. 

The negative financial results of this are obvious, what is not is the physical and mental damage caused by all of this.  This incident played out over a two year period and impacting the client terribly.        

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How to Hire a Reputable SEO Professional in the Seattle Area

I wanted to share my experiences with Google Adwords Express and the theft of money from our Google company Google accounts, which I have not stopped, but reduced. There are several clandestine tactics people, whom I consider criminals, are using to deplete your Google Adwords Express accounts. I wanted to offer some tips on taking a proactive step on reducing this.

Typically, what transpires is, bogus marketing/SEO entities will cruise the Google Adwords Express ads at the top of a Google page, then click on your ad, costing you money. They will send you SPAM emails, or they will telephone the assigned Google telephone number to your ad which will also cost you money. They are not clicking on your ad as a potential client, but to solicit business from you, aka: scam and steal money from you.

You will receive a telephone call from an unrecognized area code or if they are on of the more sophisticated companies will use a Google application to telephone you from what appears to be an area code from your city. It’s immediately apparent the person calling is a telemarketer, based upon the voices in the background, clicking on a computer keyboard, and the familiar accent of the caller.

When you do not accept their offer, internally within their organization, they conspire to engage in fraudulent clicks, until your ad disappears and your account is exhausted of funds. They keep track of what I consider “non-compliant victims” and wait a few days until you have refreshed your account with more money, then conduct fraudulent clicks all over again. Both international and domestic organizations are guilty of this.

First, using Google analytics, locate the countries that are most responsible for visiting your ads to offer bogus Google Organics and other marketing lies, such as Pakistan, India, China, Cayman Islands, Korea, and most importantly Canada. Using the options in Google Campaigns restrict your web site from being viewed in those countries. Also, restrict U.S. cities such as City of Bellevue, City of Redmond, and the City of Kirkland, as they possess domestic and international marketing scammers from the above mentioned countries. I understand the trade off, in this practice, but why are you paying money to ultimately allow scammers and solicitors to contact you then steal from you. Coincidently, minutes after I restricted the above countries and U.S. cities, specifically the City of Bellevue, my accounts remained with a balance, and I started received telephone calls from legitimate clients, which meant revenue for our company.

I did in fact need online marketing done for my company, which entails SEO, SEM, Pay per Click, Email marketing, Social Media Marketing, etc… I went to http://creativecircle.com and told them what I needed. Within a few days, I was in contact with an expert who was local and had been vetted. So my suggestion is contact Creative Circle.

www.nwseattleinvestigations.com Our new Web site is up and running

We are happy to have our new web site up and running and have been selected to partner with a global contracting and investigations firm. We have met with a marketing expert, expensive, and are goal is to focus on corporate investigations and personal protection investigations like we have been doing. We are working on putting together a 25 hour firearms training class for personal protection, which would include assisting clients in obtaining their concealed weapons permit, firearm for their fit, in class instruction, basic and advanced firearms training, qualifications. This could include case law, State Law re use of force, how to protect yourself and family either at work, home or out in the public. Most of the training will cover firearms safety.