A Reverse Email Search To Locate a Con Artist

You probably already know that you can use a reverse email search to identify someone but did you know that you can also use it to locate someone?

A case study in a recent reverse email search: My office was contacted by a client that had been conned out of a very large sum of money. He had entered into a real estate investment with a con artist. The con artist borrowed against the properties without his permission and took off with close to a million in cash.

Since he had a business relationship with this person he had a copy of their drivers license and social security card. We were able to take that information and quickly come up with a list of addresses. The current address was foreclosed on and mail to that address was returned with no forwarding information available. We contacted neighbors, relatives and former coworkers but we hit a dead end at every turn. The con artist disappeared and was very good at covering her trail. She canceled her cell phone and bought a prepaid untraceable Tracphone.

Early in the case the client provided a yahoo email address for the con artist. A quick investigation of the email revealed that the email account was still active. We were able to uncover a Myspace page with a list of friends, some dating service memberships and a personal blog . None of these blogs or ads had been updated in over 30 days but still that proved to be the most current activity of the con artist.

In the past we have been able to use the reverse email search to locate runaway teenagers, bail skips and non custodial parental kidnappers. Since this con artist was obviously on the run we decided to treat the investigation like we did those.

We emailed the con artist with a variety of pretexts from aged Myspace and dating service accounts we maintain for this purpose. Each email was sent using technology that allows us to see exactly when and where it was opened.

We were able to pick up a trail from coffee shops and public libraries. We studied these emails until we could establish a pattern and predict the direction this con artist was traveling.

Ultimately the thief slipped up and we able to pin point her exact location. She was hiding out at the home of a friends elderly grandmother.

Police in that town were contacted and supplied with the warrant information and were able to swoop in and make an arrest. This locate and ultimately the arrest would never have happened if we were constrained to the standard old fashioned skip tracing techniques investigators have used for years. It was made possible by modern day technology like the reverse email search, Internet investigation techniques like locating social network memberships and personal ad membership.

If you need assistance with a reverse email trace be sure to use a reputable investigator that is considered an expert in email tracing and has the knowledge and experience to use a reverse email search to locate people.

Copyright (c) 2008 Ed Opperman

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Ed Opperman is president of Opperman investigations. If you need a reverse email search to locate a con man, bail jumper, runaway or parental kidnapper please visit www.emailrevealer.com.

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