Criminal Civil Investigative cases we have solved

ONE OF OUR SPECIALTIES IS PROVIDING AN INTERNAL STAFF DETECTIVE which consist of an investigator being hired to work as employees at your facility among the existing work crew temporarily. Your staff hired investigator can report anything that seems inappropriate to you on a daily basis.

You will be notified if our detective verifies anyone acting, promoting, or doing anything suspicious, or is not performing in an acceptable manner.

We can perform an in - house audit surveillance to report any company infractions or violations of procedures that can lead to lost revenue or product shrinkage (theft)and or possible endangering other employees.

WHO? Your company or business location.

WHAT? Our Mission and Commitment is to Help You
Reduce Exposure to Liability, Improve Morale, Increase Profits.

Organizations hire us because we solve problems. Most of our work comes from repeat clients and client referrals.

WHERE?  YOUR BUSINESS! Our firm can help your workplace run problem-free. An undercover investigation is critical for thoroughly and effectively resolving difficult-to-investigate situations such as:
Theft, Sexual harrasment or misconduct, Substance abuse, Other forms of serious employee misconduct.

WHEN: Your situation may merit an undercover investigation when your company suspects that a potential or serious problem exists within the workface. An undercover operative has the best chance of confirming or disproving rumors, and exposing the guilty parties.

WHY: Undercover workplace investigations are employee-interactive. This method develops first-hand evidence and information concerning suspected employees. If necessary, our operative can testify in court.

HOW? Undercover in house operatives

GRAND THEFT - CASE OF THE "CASH FOR CASHMERE"

Total solved case time involved was seven hours. 

This case involved the loss of a large quantity of clothing inventory in a wholesale country and western wear clothing store.

We set up a surveillance of the clothing store from their own parking lot. Evidence was obtained in the early evening hours as the store was preparing to shut down for the night.

It was discovered that the subject who worked in the warehouse was stealing merchandise that was carried out with the cardboard boxes and put into the outside trash receptacle. An hour after closing for the night around 7:30 pm the warehouse worker returned to the trash recepticle and retrieved the stashed cashmere sport jackets he had placed there a few hours earlier.

had opportunity to load several jackets that retailed for approximately one thousand up to two thousand dollars apiece into his vehicle without interruption by any wholesale store employees.

We presented the videotaped evidence to the store manager who proceeded to call the local police to press charges of grand theft against the employee.

 FUGITIVE CAPTURE -  VIOLATION OF PROBATION 

CASE OF THE " TINKERBELL THIEF" 

Note: Tinkerbell is the elusive fairy in Peter Pan Movies. "The Land of Fae" was the home of the souls of the dead, said realm being co-existent with, but separate from, the world of the living and which could only be seen by those gifted with an ability known

as the "second sight " Total solved case time involved was 25 days.

We were contacted by the victim of a company theft is which the suspect stole large amount of company funds in excess of 20,000 but less than 100,000 dollars.

The subject was originally sentenced to subject to probation.  This apparently was not satifactory as she went missing and was placed in a Violation of probation  status.  She fled the area for some period of time but still had some family and kids in the Davie Florida area.

We were hired to locate and perform a skip trace search for this offender.  We did a few searches and discovered that she had a few hits on the grid in Coppell Texas, and some remote West Pacific island areas. But my intuitions were telling me that she still wanted to be around her children who were last verified in the Davie area home we had as a previous address. 

We staked out the home for a few days and apparently made the partents a little uneasy becuase of our shadowy presense in the area.  We also notified the Davie Police department that an arrest warrant was issued and be on lookout for this subject.

Our efforts paid off and she was apprehended and is currently in Broward County jails awaiting a move to more permanent location within the prison system. Her release date will be in 2016 unless some unfortunate incident while she is in prison dictates a longer stay. Once incarcerated you must serve the full sentence or a percentage based on gain time.

GRAND THEFT - FOOD PRODUCTS -

CASE OF THE "MISSING SHORT RIBS"

Total solved case time involved was seven days.

This case involved the loss of a large quantity of meat inventory in a local grocery store.

We set up a surveillance of the grocery store from a parking lot across the street. Evidence was obtained in the evening hours as the store was being locked up for the night.

It was discovered that the subject stealing merchandise was the night manager that had opportunity to load items into his vehicle without interruption by any store employees.

After a few weeks of videotaping and producing sufficient photo evidence we concluded the case by producing evidence to the store owner.

Our evidence showed documentation of continued nightly loading of grocery bags into the night managers van.

An interview was arranged with the night closing manager that was skimming the meat case each night and loading the valuable products along with other items into his van to take home.

We arranged an office meeting with the suspect, his employer, our chief of detectives in a private office. An interview was conducted with the suspect and proceeded to show our video and photographic evidence which showed the suspect loading his van with products taken out at night when the store was about to be closed and locked.

He confessed to his crime and additionally admitted to having at least two freezers full of meat products at his home. The manager also agreed to make restitution for the offenses.

He told us that he used the meat for his own food consumption and sold some of the meat items to friends and relatives at a reduced price.

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GRAND THEFT - PETROLEUM PRODUCTS -

CASE OF THE "TANKER TRUCK TROLLE"

Total solved case time involved was nine hours.

This case involved the consistant shortage of tanker trucks sent out to fuel a fleet of vehicles.

We were called in to investigate shortages in diesel fuel distribution.

Could this be consistant theft of petroleum products from a diesel fuel supplier??

We set up the initial methods and parameters for obtaining the necessary evidence and proceeded with the case.

FACTS: All of the vehicles that were fueled were showing only three quarters full the next morning and the company asked us to show them the reason for this. We set up surveillance an followed the delivery truck for several days.

The following pattern emerged that explained why the diesel fuel was missing and where it was being used. Each day the driver would fuel a series of vehicles but ended up shorting each vehicle from two to five gallons of fuel.

At the end of the day he would drive to a remote location and fill up his family and friends vehicles and he continued this practice on a daily basis for a few months. Videotaped evidence of this theft concluded with a drivers confession to the series of thefts.

Results were swift and immediate. The employee was terminated with cause and then charges were brought against the employee for Grand theft.

GRAND THEFT - PHARMACEUTICALS -

CASE OF THE "TRANSPORTER DRUGS"

Total solved case time involved was thirteen days.

FACTS: A shortage in inventory was discovered at the financial headquarters of a large corporate pharmaceutical warehouse company. They found in addition that drugs were being ordered wher no purchase order form a client was on file.

Financial loss was estimated in this instance was in excess of $250,000 over a period of eight months. We began by discussing the details involved in the case with the client.

A proposed a plan of action was drawn up whereby the location would be put under a three man surveillance team.

This surveillance was continued for about twelve days in an attempt to discover the method of extraction of the drugs in question.

After continued surveillance there was a complete lack of evidence that drugs were being taken from the physical warehouse or loaded into vehicles to be taken to another locaton.

An additinal internal warehouse location search produced additional shipping boxes with various addresses were found stashed behind the shipping workstation and these boxes were then traced back to a warehouse employee.

Evidence obtained was turned over to the police authorities and the case is now being prepared for trial.

Due to fact that the subject(s) in this case are now under police interrogation and further case investigation, no further details can be revealed at this time.

LIFE AND DEATH PREVENTION - 

CASE OF THE SILENT MOTHER

"I really appreciate you taking the time to find my mother who had not contacted me in the last several days.

She failed to answer her cellphone for three days when I tried to contact her. l live in New York witch is approximately 1200 miles away and was in a frantic state of mind. You told me not to worry and that you a check on her immediately.

You went to my mother's address after eleven o'clock at night and after knocking several times on her front door there was no answer. You asked a neiborghood tenant who the building manager was and how you could get in touch with him. You then contacted the building manager had him use a master key to open the door.

Upon entrance to my mothers apartment you found her huddled in a corner of the living room in an exhausted physical condition. Her verbal responses were somewhat delusional and her speach was slurred. She was also so traumatized that she was unable to get up from the floor.

After your call to the police and paramedics they took her to Broward General hospital and I believe that saved her life. I can't thank you enough for your kindness and consideration in this difficult situation." Ellen V., New York

VIRUS WORMS AND HACKER CRIMES 

Total solved case time involved was one hour.

Here is an example of a site spreading trojan horse style worms as soon as you hit their web page.

DO NOT VISIT THIS SITE WITHOUT A VIRUS PROGRAM INSTALLED ON YOUR COMPUTER...
SIte is listed as follows and has been reported as an abusing site to the registrar of records in Russia.

Whois Record
IP Information 81.29.241.232
Record Type: IP Address
IP Location: Russian Federation - Llc Globalwholesaletrade
Blacklist Status: Clear
Whois Record
inetnum: 81.29.240.0 - 81.29.242.63
netname: GLOBALTRADE-NET-1
descr: LLC GlobalWholesaleTrade
country: RU
remarks: -------------------------------------------------------
remarks: For abuse notifications please -
remarks: contact our Abuse Department
remarks: email:
remarks: -------------------------------------------------------
admin-c: GS5852-RIPE
tech-c: GS5852-RIPE
status: ASSIGNED PA
mnt-by: MNT-GLOBALTRADE
source: RIPE # Filtered
person: Georgiy Surai
address: Tverskaya-Yamskaya 1-st 27 build 5
address: 125047 Moscow
address: Russia
phone: +7 495 7263587
e-mail:
nic-hdl: GS5852-RIPE
mnt-by: MNT-GLOBALTRADE
source: RIPE # Filtered

Here is an example of someone who will send you a fake information email and when you click to go to their site you will be infected with a virus automatically.

Currently evidence and locations are being gathered and processed to bring this person(s) to justice with the German authorities. When this case is completed this person(s) will lose certain freedoms because of his irresponsible and criminal behavior.

The actual virus is locked in a virus vault and can be reproduced as court evidence at any time.

DO NOT GO HERE or you may end up losing vital hard disk information..... http://www.muratkayi.de/biografie.xxx
IP Address: 212.204.60.1 (ARIN & RIPE IP search)
IP Location: DE(GERMANY)
DMOZ no listings
Y! Directory: see listings
Data as of: 14-Jun-2005

FOLLOW UP CONTACT NOTE FROM THE OWNER OF THIS SITE IS AS FOLLOWS:

Dear Mr. xxxxx,

My name is Murat Kayi.
on your website you refer to a case of phishing activities my domain muratkayi.de was misused for (here: http://www.ateam-investigations.com/investigation_examples.html)

On either 16th or 17th of December the web server of that domain was hacked and defaced by criminal hackers who misused a standard web log script to make it upload data and execute PHP commands. The defacement changed the pages on my domain in a way which kept their outward appearance, but tried to probably install malicious software. Within minutes of my knowledge of this I had my provider take the domain completely off the web.

For the sake of completeness I kindly ask you to include the information to your website that
- the whole site has been taken down for a week by me to prevent further inconveniences for any users - the viruses as well as any other content uploaded or stored or installed by the hackers have been removed

- I as the owner of the site will press charges (against unknown) with german police authorities, even though the domain's statistics do no keep track of POST requests and a full evidence against a single IP will be hard or even impossible to achieve.

I think you can imagine that the whole matter was highly upsetting for me. I hope you understand that reading about the whole affair in a way that does not differentiate between the ones who hacked the site and sent the phishing emails on the one hand and the one who owns and maintains a website that got hacked and had to deal with finding his house broken into (albeit "only" virtually) on the other hand is only adding to my grief.

I am looking forward to hearing from you
Best Regards
Murat Kayi

PHISHING (Baiting an innocent victim to extract identity, usernames and passwords and use that information to extract funds from their accounts.)

Total solved case time involved was one hour.

EXcerpts of a letter we sent to the Chancellor of Schools in Georgia.

Office of the Chancellor
Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia
Suite 7025
270 Washington Street, SW
Atlanta, GA 30334

"I am receiving continued spam from this site on your servers. Possibly a student or staff - the actual user is not known but your technical network staff can locate this person. I actualy tracked the location to your servers by backtracking to the root server directories I then found that this scammer is using your Georgia Technicnal University school website as a server for their illegal operations.
You have someone who is attempting to scam paypal users into revealing their bank account information be obtaining login info such as user names and password log ins at this web address. http://www.omed.gatech.edu/Mambo/components/ They are using a CGI script - (common gateway interface) entrance page and it is ILLEGAL AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL to obtain this type of information.

Can you investigate and shut down this site? If not I will take this to a higher authority and it could be rather embarrassing."

Email letter number two

Hello I just sent an email reference this account and want to provide you with the false paypal entry page that I gave you in that email. http://www.omed.gatech.edu/Mambo/components/com_extcalendar/upload/.update/secure/cgi-bin/webscrcmd_login.php.

Put this site together with an email bomb which sends email to thousands and you have a potential for huge amounts of scams and fraud going on here I actually went to one such site and they had already accrued over 37,000 hits on the entry page alone.

This is a problem occurring very frequently lately on the internet.

This puts personal information at risk for the casual internet user.

Trained investigators watch for fraud and deceit.

It also makes the web a very unfriendly place for a lot of unsuspecting people.