The Internet as an Investigative Tool

The Internet as an
Investigative Tool
Advantage of OnOn-Line Info
Information
is
readily available
Saves time when
conducting
investigations
Provides additional
investigative leads
Used as evidence in
court or other
proceedings
Maury Travis
MSN/maurytravis
Expedia.com
Philip Markoff
http://www.google.com/
http://www.google.com/
http://www.google.com/
http://www.google.com/
Private Organization
Websites
Useful
information can
be obtained from
private organization
websites.
Members names,
addresses, telephone
numbers, meeting
schedules, and
professional licenses.
http://www.asaecenter.org
Center for Association Leadership
Blog Searching
http://blogsearch.google.com/
http://www.technorati.com/
http://www.icerocket.com/
Social Network Searching
http://www.facebook.com/find--friends
http://www.facebook.com/find
http://www.yoname.com
http://www.peekyou.com/
http://www.pipl.com/
http://www.spokeo.com/
http://twitter.com
Twitter Search
http://www.youtube.com/
INVESTIGATIVE RESOURCES
http://www.accurint.com/
http://www.virtualgumshoe.com/
http://publicrecords.searchsystems.net
http://www.netronline.com/
http://www.zabasearch.com/
http://daplus.us/
www.zoominfo.com
TELEPHONE
RESOURCES
http://www.nanpa.com/index.html
North American Numbering Plan Administration
http://www.phonenumber.com/
Governmental Websites
A variety of
“governmental records”
can be obtained from
governmental websites.
This information
includes:
Court Records, Criminal
Convictions,
Incarcerations, Laws,
Property Ownership,
Tax Records, City
Services, Business
Licenses, Professional
Licenses, etc..
http://www.michigan.gov/
http://www.missingkids.com
NCMEC
http://www.michiganicac.com/
http://www.michigan.gov/mioc
http://www.michigan.gov/corrections/
MSP – Sex Offender
Registry
https://apps.michigan.gov/ICHAT/
http://www.sec.gov/edgar
http://www.nsopr.gov/
http://www.archive.org/
News Media
http://www.lexisnexis.com/
http://newslink.org/
http://www.newspapers.com/
The Deep Web
The Deep Web
Web
sites or information that
popular search engines are not
capable of indexing
Consists largely of content
content--rich
databases from universities,
libraries, associations, businesses
and government
The Invisible Web
Most
searchers only locate 0.03% 1 in 3,000 - of the Web pages
available to them
Even advanced searchers, using
largest search engines, can only
access about 16% of Web content
Diagrams from http://brightplanet.com/technology/deepweb.asp
http://www.completeplanet.com
www.digital--librarian.com
www.digital
http://www.ipl.org/
Conclusion
Corroborate
investigative
findings!
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