Criminals often use sophisticated methods to conceal their identities and locations, a tactic prevalent in romance fraud, online trading, and cryptocurrency scams. Such concealment measures inherently make it difficult for investigators to identify who’s connected to, facilitating, or orchestrating a crime.
IYE’s proprietary investigation resource, Cobra AI, enables us to overcome this technical and logistical challenge to identify perpetrators internationally.
During the investigation phase we gather and verify intelligence that is relative to the crime in question. For example, we can identify an individual’s aliases, criminal associates including money mules or, intelligence contained within the targets background, travel patterns, digital footprint or finances, that may be integral to securing their apprehension, or to pursuing a wider line of enquiry.
We prioritise the quality of our information by ensuring that our team of experts thoroughly examines and verify every piece of data before it is shared with our clients.
Our global teams of experts with credentials in law, law enforcement, cybercrime, forensic computing, finance, and security are supported by technology and data analysis tools to gather intelligence relating to a targets known locations, background, associates, digital footprint, links to criminality, or involvement in a specific crime.
IYE’s phased, fixed cost approach to accessing levels of intelligence enables our clients to make informed decisions at key stages in an investigation whilst managing budget.
Phase 1: Intelligence Lookup
Validate specific criteria, such as a photograph, WhatsApp number, or cryptocurrency wallet address. Results determine whether additional relevant intelligence is available warranting further investigation or, the line of enquiry can be excluded from an investigation.
Phase 2: Intelligence Overlay
A summary report enabling clients to evaluate initial intelligence gathered relative to the target individual, crime committed, or specific line of enquiry.
Phase 3: Full Intelligence Report
The provision of a comprehensive evidence-based assessment of a situation specific to a client’s line of enquiry.
The ability of scammers to project a plausible image of themselves continues to impress even our most seasoned investigators. By utilising advanced technologies to commit elaborate scams and sophisticated financial systems to launder money, the ability for criminals to devise complex crimes is getting harder to detect, prevent and pursue across jurisdictions.
Ironically, it is the mobile phones, computers, email addresses, websites, social media profiles, messaging Apps, financial transfers, and reliance on the internet as both a delivery and financial mechanism to commit crime, all of which leave a digital footprint and therefore evidence trail, that leaves criminals widely exposed.
To assist our clients, IYE thoroughly investigate any given target using various techniques. These include open source and partner intelligence services, forensic accounting and where required location-based surveillance, enabling an accurate picture of the “on the ground” situation.
Facial recognition technology is the flagship in our armoury and is frequently the catalyst in our investigations to locate perpetrators.
Using Cobra AI, our proprietary investigation resource, we can identify individuals from photographs and video footage bringing verification to an investigation, often the first step on an evidence trail leading to a successful outcome.
Confirming an individual’s true (or false) ID is the foundation upon which channels of forensic investigation serve to secure unparalleled degrees of background intelligence.
If you need to quickly locate a scammer or perpetrator to help solve a crime, please contact us.
