February 27th How the world's best skiptracer hunts
Smart Cons game on the Internet – and Michelle Gomez finds you
– David Braue
Melbourne, Australia – February 27, 2021
Michelle Gomez remembers that she had been “shocked” years ago when a wired reporter
Finding out such people has become a specialty for Gomez in Texas that has spent the past 19 years to skip the persecution to abbreviations, skipped the deposit or committed other crimes by combing all types of public and private information sources of online spaces.
“I am doing my skipping work here in the house,” she said to the podcast of the cybercrime magazine.
As “a person with unique skills who can put together data in a short time”, Gomez is concerned with success in the succeed in the industry about how effective you can search the data to “formulate a well -founded decision about what I will do next”.
A common acronym – sits (accommodation, income, means of transport and social media) – encapsulated the four main domains of information that Gomez often leads to their goals, and each of them has footprints in online data sources and offline environments.
The internet ”is a large part of [investigating]”, Said AJ Barrera, a licensed private detective, with whom Gomez often works.” It is pretty much the basis of everything at this point. “
“Everyone has the phone in their hands,” he continued, “and it is a great source to track and examine without being on the field just as much.”
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Lose yourself online – and still be found
Online research was invaluable at Gomez's examination of Mullen, a social chameleon that had been used for years specializing in specialized check pressure devices.
Gomez was called in the case in 2013 after Mullen – a refugee from the FBI for 14 years – had withdrawn several other private investigators and a variety of false identities that made its many fraud cases easier.
The story that she has caught is a cracking reading that several identities, false bills, 14 Rolls-Royces, credit fraud and an overpriced yacht-but contains the TL; Dr.
By curating his online identities in the right places, Mullen had not only managed to create false identities, but also to give them additional veritas, since he understood how online databases created and maintained-and how data indexing services can even spread incorrect information until they become facts.
Throw a dash of Shell Company Fire and a good old-fashioned fake, and you have a perpetrator that is extremely difficult to grasp.
Although the Internet is invaluable for the search for people, Barrera said: “It has its ability to hide and manipulate the system.”
“You can hide a little easier behind the computer,” he said. “That is the reason why you are able to do what you can do – and unfortunately it is strengthened by the Internet because you can be something you don't and people have.”
“I absolutely think that a fraudster can get more from the Internet.”
Tools only bring them so far.
Eight years later, Gomez still refines her skills to skip and the tools that you are present to remain increasingly powerful anonymity services.
Your activity area has dramatically expanded in view of the spread of social media footprints and the intrusiveness with which data is collected and compiled every day.
“I know how to use meta tags, hashtags and things,” said Gomez. “And I am really good at finding and improving certain information in order to find it that finds that [using a particular method]. “”
But while she admits that she is “really good on a computer [and] I can get in if I have to, ”also includes a large part of your work to achieve colleagues, analysts and even players who are able to deliver new perspectives of the online worlds in which your goals are common.
An ongoing investigation includes, for example, human trafficking and sex trade. She prompted Gomez to “achieve many friends in the industry who specialize in certain things I need”, e.g. B. a contact that is particularly good at finding people on Snapchat.
Ultimately, however, Gomez's methods often bleed into the world of social engineering, which many cybercriminals have so well to avoid the so-called “human firewall”-as if a cybercrime could try to get an IT help speech to reveal a user password, for example.
Successful skip tracing requires hard skills and the human touch – something that Barrera comes to the industry when talented new recruits receive the call.
“The entire climate changes towards the cyber aspect,” he said, “and our younger generation will absolutely monopolize this.”
According to Gomez, the key is to meet the information resources with the immeasurable flexibility of human intuition and experience with immeasurable flexibility.
“If you do not use your phone and do not use your voice and do not use common sense when you talk to these strangers,” said Gomez, “you will not receive any information.”
“Sometimes only very nice and very generous and very sincerely helps when I talk to these strangers. I think they feel like a hero for this day – but for me it is all the intelligence that gathers.”
-David brewe is an award -winning technology author based in Melbourne, Australia.
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