Corporate

There are many reasons why a business or a business owner would need to use private investigation services especially when it comes to crime and fraud prevention as well as extra protection. Below are some of the ways that hiring a private investigator can be beneficial for business owners.

In today’s business world, most upper-level management personnel and business owners believe that their organization is safe from fraud. Most are under the impression that their employees, co-workers, and possibly co-owners have only the best intentions for the organization. It would be ideal if that were true, however, that’s often far from the truth.

In our continuing series examining frauds that target corporation, we will examine a scam known as duplicate payment fraud. Duplicate payments may not always be attributed to fraud. In many cases, the duplicate payment may be caused by poor administration of a company’s master vendor file. Or a duplicate payment could be initiated through a billing error by the company who is owed the money. These errors are often detected and usually reconciled through communication between the vendor and the customer.

I have presented to many business people and organizations and the most common question I receive is, “Why would we be a target of online attacks”? There are many reasons; corporate espionage, your competitors, fraud, theft of customer and vendor information and the most common reason – ransomeware (the theft of your data for monetary gain).

As a 28 year veteran of the Vancouver Police Department, and 12 years spent in the Technological Crimes Unit, Mark recovered approximately $600 million in compromised financial data. He has provided crucial intelligence in relation to a number of high profile data breaches across North America, which resulted in the successful arrests of a number of global suspects.

Dr. Jean Robert Ngola was singled out as the source of a COVID-19 outbreak in Campbellton, N.B., in the spring, but an investigation by CBC’s The Fifth Estate and Radio-Canada?casts increasing doubt on whether he was ‘patient zero.’