We’re Like ‘The Transporter’ – Only We Want To Know What’s In The Package!

We’re Like ‘The Transporter’ – Only We Want To Know What’s In The Package!

Pick something – An extremely valuable piece of jewellery that needs to go into a family security box? An important original piece of paperwork that needs signed by another party but if lost would be irreplaceable or badly shake the foundations of a pending business deal? An actual person that needs to get between two locations but you’re worried that they could be at risk of attack, kidnap or much worse. Read more about We’re Like ‘The Transporter’ – Only We Want To Know What’s In The Package!

Warning: ‘National Networked Investigations’

Warning: ‘National Networked Investigations’

Surmount Investigations has been asked a few times whether we work with or would recommend the services of National Networked Investigations.

To be clear, National Networked Investigations is a scam that involves ‘licensing’ “20 cases a week” to investigators in return for £50 commission per case – once you’ve paid hundreds of pounds to cover ‘half’ of your online training to become an investigator! Once they’ve got your money, they kill contact with you and leave you high and dry with no work.

On the flip side, they induce large ‘deposits’ from their client base for a variety of cases and then do not deliver on any follow-up work. Read more about Warning: ‘National Networked Investigations’

Is Your Partner Cheating On You?

Is Your Partner Cheating On You?

Whether it be through texts or emails you’ve seen that raise a red flag, being told something by someone you trust or experiencing a change in their behaviour that doesn’t quite make sense, believing a partner to be cheating on you can be incredibly upsetting and getting proof is often not easy.

On one case we dealt with, a woman instructed us to follow her soon-to-be-husband every Tuesday and Thursday. The information we were given was that he was claiming to be working late on those nights every week but when she’d called up to speak to him he wasn’t there, he was coming home smelling of perfume, constantly tired and she felt “100%” that he was “sowing his wild oats” before their wedding later that year. She was determined to leave him but wanted concrete proof of his ‘misdeeds’… Read more about Is Your Partner Cheating On You?

Case Study: ‘Movie Star Planet’

Case Study: ‘Movie Star Planet’

A client approached us with screen-shots of their daughter’s movements and conversations on a smartphone / tablet app called “Movie Star Planet”. The conversations between their 12-year-old daughter and what she believed was an 11-year-old girl from a different school in the area were developing into content of a highly questionable and suspect nature.

The first thing we did was educate ourselves on the app itself, what its purpose was for users and what restrictions were in place to prevent those it wasn’t designed for (i.e. adults) from accessing it for nefarious purposes with its target base (i.e. children).

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Done Right, A Good Interview And A Strong Statement Can Effect Considerable Change

Done Right, A Good Interview And A Strong Statement Can Effect Considerable Change

We work with solicitors, insurers and HR professionals on a lot of our bigger and lengthier investigatory cases and, when we do, there’s really no way of getting away from the fact that long-form interviews are going to be a necessary part of the process.

It doesn’t matter whether it’s interviewing someone you believe to be guilty of an act of misconduct, or fraud, a witness or even a victim, they need to be interviewed in a manner that is professional, legally sound, fair, appropriate and with the best chance of allegations becoming evidence and a successful result for the client achieved. Read more about Done Right, A Good Interview And A Strong Statement Can Effect Considerable Change