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Fake driving license ring. Arrest made in India

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Auto insurance companies and their special investigative units need to be on the constant look out for fake driver’s licenses. The quality of fake driver’s licenses is very impressive. Many will have all the proper seals, stamps and holograms to pass close inspections of insurance agents and police. However to be verified as a legitimate license, Investigative research needs to be conducted at the countries DMV. RTO, etc .

Last week in Mumbia India the Uran police arrested 4 individuals in a fake driver license ring. They were make fake licenses and selling them to contract drivers.

This is just another example to trust but verify.

The importance of hiring Professional Private Investigators

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In the UK, more than 100 big companies and law firms are being investigated as to their involvement with “rogue” private investigators. This past week a former private investigator in the UK was arrested for allegations of computer hacking and other breached of privacy. He was the 21st person to be arrested as part of a Scotland Yard investigations.

When hiring a private investigator it is important to ask a lot questions about what information can be obtained. If the investigator you are speaking with says something like, “all information is available” than I would proceed with caution. In the US, it is true that a lot of information is available and with an experienced investigator, he or she will know where to look and gather that information in a professional and legal manner. Another good question to ask a detective, if they would be willing to testify in court to their methods and results of their investigation. Most PI’s don’t want to give up their trade secrets to their clients, which is fine and understandable. However, the PI should be willing to go into court and testify to their investigations.

Just some food for thought….

The Pre-employment Screening Process

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The pre-employment screening process

The primary purpose behind our comprehensive pre-employment screening process is that it frees you of all the tensions involved with hiring the right person for your company. With job applicants approaching you from not just within your own town or city, but from other cities and countries too, it’s not only extremely expensive to hire competent personnel, it can be excruciatingly costly if the antecedents of the applicant are not verified and he or she misleads you or your hiring department as a result.

Our process of carrying out pre-employment screening

The process of carrying out pre-employment screening can be as simple and as complex as your requirement. All in all, here’s the process that we follow at McLaughlin Investigative Group Inc d/b/a EmploySecure.com:

 

  • Your job applicants sign the release form: If you want to conduct a pre-employment background check upon your applicants must should sign a release form that indicates they have no objection to the check. We proceed only after receiving the release form.

 

  • You initiate the process: After logging onto your secure account at EmploySecure.com you initiate the pre-employment screening process.

 

  • The screening takes place: At EmploySecure.com our client’s decide the level of background check they want to conduct on their applicants. It can be as simple as verifying a Social Security number to conducting multi county and federal criminal searches, credit and driving history reports. Our experienced researchers and investigators visit relevant places and collect the information and review it for you.

 

  • A detailed report is prepared: Once all the information is gathered a detailed report is prepared that you can access through your secure account at EmploySecure.com.

 

 If our report listed negative information on the applicant which may adversely effect the hiring decision you should provide a copy of the report to the applicant and a pre-adverse letter notifying the applicant you are about to take negative action. Also provide the applicant a copy of the FCRA Summary of Rights. Once that is completed you can send a notification of adverse action.

 

In case there’s a positive outcome, there’s no hurdle stopping you from hiring the applicant. In both the cases you can bask in the glory of having made the right hiring decision.


Visit our pre-employment screening website for more information www.EmploySecure.com

Trademark infringement patent copyright investigations

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You must have strenuously worked for years to build your reputation and toiled hard to gain exceptional recognition for your business trademark. Your customers and clients vouch for your quality and service whenever they come across your trademark. A trademark is a symbol people use to recognize your company or business. You earn profits when people buy your product or use your service after seeing your trademark. If someone uses your trademark to promote his or her product or service, he she is earning a profit that must legally have been yours. It’s infringement of your profits. It’s trademark infringement.
The same goes for your patent. When you develop a new idea or a formula or invent something that can earn you huge profits, you get it patented at the patent office so that whoever wants to use your idea or formula or invention he or she has to first pay you the amount you demand for giving the permission. If someone does that sort of business without your permission, it is patent infringement.

At McLaughlin Investigative Group Inc. we carry out two levels of trademark and patent infringement investigations: 1. We find out whether the infringement is actually happening, and documenting the infringement by making purchases of the knock off items or gathering what ever other evidence your attorneys need to shut down the illegal activity. 2. We prepare the evidence we collected to it will be admissible in court.

Some additional services we offer:

  • Photographic and video proof of illegal knock offs
  • Documents and account details
  • Undercover buys of counterfeit products
  • Collection of office stationery and product samples
  • Sampling of local and Internet advertisements and other promotional campaigns
  • Relevant interviews with employees and customers and clients

With our extensive experience in investigations and an immense assortment of resources at our disposal we can easily dig out the hidden information – across the international border – and get you the information that can help you protect your trademark, copyright and patent rights.

The pitfalls of Social Networking Websites

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Are you constantly posting updates on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace or FriendFeed so that your friends and colleagues know what you’re up to and what cool activities you’ve been doing lately? Do you ever consider that some of these updates can cost you your job? It’s already happening to numerous social networking enthusiasts.

Many of your postings on these social networking websites can act as the proverbial boomerang and cause you unforeseeable damage. Hiring companies and professional investigators routinely comb through social networking websites to gauge the nature of activities carried out by job candidates, and even existing employees.
Ever since the Internet started being used in the offices managements all over the world defined ways to make sure employees didn’t use the net simply to chat, exchange personal emails or visit objectionable websites. This could be easily accomplished within the office premises, but they had no control over their employees’ online activities outside of their offices. This changed after the onset of social media and networking websites. A mere glance over a compilation of your social networking activities can give lots of information to your current and future employees.

Having active and vibrant profiles at social networking websites is perfectly normal these days. The problem manifests when you start showing traits that don’t find favor with your current or future employees, like, bitching about your job, making derogatory remarks about your seniors, colleagues, or even people in general, posting lewd content, gossiping about people behind their backs, posting sensitive company information, boasting about how you made a fool of your previous employee and posting racial slurs. In some cases even your political and religious beliefs can get you in trouble, but these are extreme cases.
You can say your social networking activities pretty much define your philosophy and attitude and whatever you post, most of it, is publically, easily available, to whoever makes enough effort to get it.

So do I mean to say you shouldn’t post much on social networking websites? No. Social networking websites are a great way of keeping in touch with your friends and sharing useful and interesting news and information with them. Just be aware that anybody can access the content you post on social networking websites. Treat social networking conversations as real-world conversations: don’t say things about people you don’t want people to say about you. Don’t make postings recklessly; they might have far-reaching implications.

In other words…”don’t say or write anything you would not want written on the front page of the New York Times” because it just might end up there.

Asbestos Defense Litigation

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At McLaughlin Investigative Group Inc. we understand the devastating effect asbestos leaves on its unsuspecting victims their families, but we firmly believe that not all of the defendants listed in these law suits belong there. In many cases these defendants are only listed in a lawsuit because they were in business during an era when asbestos was sometimes used in specific products and there only “wrong doing” is they are still in business today. Many of these business get sued with little or no proof linking their products to the plaintiff’s exposure.

We help companies defend themselves in these product liability cases by documenting the plaintiff was not exposed to their products and also by looking at alternative exposure issues.

We closely work with the law firms from around the country who specializing in asbestos defense litigation, especially in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Hampshire. We gather evidence by tracking down witnesses from decades ago, researching old public documents and begin to the tedious process of investigating these claims. When an individual suffers from mesothelioma because of his or her exposure to asbestos and then files a lawsuit against the company we work with defense councils to get the facts verified. Our purpose is not to make a strong case even when the company is at fault but explore all the possibilities and facts so that a fair defense can be mounted.

We carry out thorough background checks on claimants: where they have been working, what have been their lifestyle and recreational habits, what has been their family health history, have they actually been exposed to asbestos where they’re claiming to have been exposed – basically, we specialize in developing alternative exposure in asbestos defense litigation. Along with myriad other cases we have investigated occupational asbestos exposure and help defense counsel for automobile, boiler manufacturing and joint compound-sheetrock industries.

Our team of highly experienced investigators are well-equipped to carry out sophisticated investigations. We exercise extreme sensitivity while carrying out the investigations and speaking to witnesses, while always being extremely professional in our approach.

Until next time…



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