NEW FREE SEARCHES FOR INVESTIGATORS

Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 6:03 am

Robert Scott/Crime Time
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May 23 (2 days ago)

Dear Investigator,

You're receiving this newsletter because you signed up for it at either crimetime.com or at Black Book Online, our free Internet public record search site for investigators, now located at www.BlackBookOnline.info .

In this issue:

1. NEW FREE SEARCHES FOR INVESTIGATORS
2. DANGERS OF PUBLIC WALKIE-TALKIE FREQUENCIES
3. DIGITAL COPIERS SECURITY FLAW
4. COLORADO REMOVES MARRIAGE/DIVORCE RECORDS FROM WEB
5. DRUG TRAFFICKER'S BOTCHED FINGERPRINT TRANSPLANT - OUCH!
6. OTHER IMPORTANT WEBSITES (PLUG)
7. LAST BLURB: AIRBORNE SPY CAM

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1. NEW FREE DATABASE SEARCHES FOR INVESTIGATORS

Many thanks to all who have provided tips on new searches! Here's highlights of the newest free searches just added to Black Book Online:

* FEDERAL - Bankruptcies
* WASHINGTON STATE - Registered Voters
* NEW JERSEY - Statewide Criminal Convictions
* LOUISIANA - Insurance Licenses
* MONTANA - Missoula County Jail Roster
* MINNESOTA - Meth Offender Registry
* TEXAS - GED Certificate Holders
* VIRGINIA - Bail Bondsmen
* NEW HAMPSHIRE - Prison Inmates
* NEW HAMPSHIRE - Insurance Licenses
* ALABAMA - Jefferson County Probate Court
* ARIZONA - Real Estate Licenses
* ALABAMA - Insurance Licenses
* SOUTH CAROLINA - Horry County Jail Inmates
* FLORIDA - Monroe County Criminal Court
* TEXAS - Collin County Marriage Licenses
* TEXAS - Collin County Fictitious Business Names
* OKLAHOMA - Consumer Credit Licenses
* SOUTH CAROLINA - Registered Charities
* TEXAS - Bell County Jail Inmates
* CALIFORNIA - Monterey County Civil/Criminal Courts
* ILLINOIS - Cook County Assessor (includes property photos)
* NEW YORK - NYC Jail Inmates
* MINNESOTA - Collection Agencies
* MINNESOTA - Real Estate Agents
* NORTH DAKOTA - Private Investigators
* PENNSYLVANIA - Registered Lobbyists
* NEW YORK - NYC Department of Consumer Affairs licensees
* CALIFORNIA - Licensed Tax Preparers

The freshness and vitality of Black Book Online comes from the many investigators, skiptracers, collectors, law enforcement officers and others who take a minute to drop us a line when they find a new search. If you have a favorite free database search to add, please send it NOW! Just go to crimetime.com and click the contact page link.

2. DANGERS OF PUBLIC WALKIE-TALKIE FREQUENCIES

While many private investigators use cell phones and click-to-talk cell phone technology (like Nextels), many others use off-the-shelf consumer walkie-talkie brands that use public frequencies to communicate over. These investigators are unwittingly endangering themselves and their team members. The leading manufacturer of consumer scanners, Bearcat, has developed a new "Close Call" technology that zeroes in on and singles out nearby transmissions.

Drug dealers, meth lab operators and other criminal types regularily keep a scanner working, hunting the public frequencies to get advance notice of police activity in the area. Private investigators working an unrelated insurance or domestic case could easily have their transmissions eavesdropped on and suddenly find themselves mistaken for cops. This recently happend to a private investigator in Southern California who found himself being confronted by a biker drug-dealer. The P.I. gave the biker the slip but had to abandon the surveillance to avoid further trouble. Fortunately, no one was hurt.

3. DIGITAL COPIERS SECURITY FLAW?

Photocopiers can now be added to the list of items leaking personal data, according to the Sharp copier company. The company recently released a security advisory warning that the harddrives on many photocopiers are storing scanned documents -- long after actual copies have been made. Security kits are now being employed on many new machines. The kits will overwrite the harddrive holding the scanned documents, effectively erasing them. However, most copy machines currently in use have no such security in place.

This story was widely circulated on Internet news sites and elsewhere recently. I wanted to learn if this was really just an Internet myth, so I made a trip to my local copy shop. There were two basic types of copiers. A Xerox Docucolor and a Canon ImageRunner. I couldn't get anything out of the Xerox. On the Canon, after exploring the various menus and submenus I found my way to a "recall" option where the last three items printed were still available! I picked one and it started printing out 60 copies of an actress's resume! Apparently, that's who had been on the machine before me! So, is there a security flaw on many digital copy machines? Apparently so!

4. COLORADO REMOVES MARRIAGE/DIVORCE RECORDS FROM WEB

Colorado has removed divorce and marriage searches from the Internet. The stated reason was that the records represented a possible source of information for identity thieves -- although state officials admitted there had not been one documented case of identity theft tied to the website. Of course they could have just removed the obviously problematic data -- like mother's maiden names and left eveything else. But they didn't. Further, no public hearings were held prior to removing the website. Rather, the decision was made in a smoke-free backroom by faceless government hacks who no doubt had well-meaning but misguided privacy advocates chirping in their ears.

Let's take a moment to consider the harm done by this one closure alone. Let's take the example of a single mother of three who is engaged to be married. Her fiance tells her he has never been married before. In truth, he's been married three times and has quite a history of abusing each of the prior wives. The single mother will have no idea of this man's past marriages because state officials have denied her this simple web lookup. So, she walks into a marriage with a liar and abuser. Folks, something is wrong with this picture. Something is wrong when freedom of information is in the hands of unelected "privacy advocates" and faceless bureaucrats. Will anyone speak out for the single-mother and the thousands of other people who have a very real and vital need for this type of information?

5. DRUG TRAFFICKER'S BOTCHED FINGERPRINT TRANSPLANT - OUCH!

Mexican doctor Jose Covarrubias has been indicted in the United States on charges connected with a Marijuana trafficking ring. Among other things, he's alleged to have surgically removed the fingerprints of co-defendant and alleged ringleader Marc George. However, George may be asking for his money back. According to authorities, the Mexican doctor remvoed skin from the bottom of George's feet and transplanted it to his fingertips. The surgery went badly and both of George's hands are said to be mangled! Ouch!

This isn't the first time a fingerprint transplant has been attempted in the lore of criminal history. Back in the 1940's, career criminal Roscoe Pitts had a doctor replace his fingerprints with skin from his knuckles, and then replace the skin off his knuckles with skin from his chest!

All of which begs the question -- are there any laws on the book that make it specifically illegal to alter or deface your own fingerprints? I did a little web searching and couldn't find that indeed there was. If any readers of this newsletter should know, please email me the details and I'll pass them along in the next edition....

6. OTHER IMPORTANT WEBSITES (PLUG)

FYI, my other websites for private investigators, skip tracers and others...

http://www.CrimeTime.com Books & Information for Private Investigators
http://www.SkipSmasher.com Restricted Data for Professional Skiptracers
http://www.BlackBookOnline.info Database Searches for Investigators - Free
http://www.SSNvalidator.com Identify Potentially Fraudulent Social Security Numbers - Free
http://www.PhoneValidator.com Is it a cell or is it a landline? Free
http://www.SkiptraceSeminar.com Learn to skiptrace online in 3 hours.

7. LAST BLURB: AIRBORNE SPY CAM

And finally, our last paragraph where I share something offbeat, funny or just interesting...

One project I've always thought about but never gotten around to is to build a custom airborne surveillance camera. Something along the lines of a light weight, micro camera mounted on a remote controlled toy helicopter. Something that would let me take a sneak peak at what's going on in areas I couldn't get a line of sight to. The Drudge Report featured a link last week to a fantastic mac-daddy version of this. It's being used by law enforcement in UK. Here's a link to the photo...

http://www.crimetime.com/police_spy_cam.htm

And here's link to the arfticle with all the details...

[url]http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23397459-details/'Flying+saucer'+police+spy+camera+takes+to+the+skies/article.do
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IN CLOSING:

As a final reminder, for FREE database searches for investigators, go to Black Book Online, now found at our new address [url]http://www.BlackBookOnline.info [/url]. Be sure to bookmark it now!

Best regards,

Robert Scott
Private Investigator (Los Angeles)
Author, "The Investigator's Little Black Book 3"
Editor, Black Book Online, now located at [url]http://www.BlackBookOnline.info
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Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 6:56 pm

great info, lawman

Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 6:09 pm

THANK-YOU!

Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 8:22 pm

well I glad someone reads old post! Very Happy

Scott's site is excellent as is his book "The Investigator's Little Black Book"

watchman

Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 5:43 am

I tried these sites for a cell phone lookup and even put my own cell phone number in there to test the site and it still says it is an invalid phone number.

Does anyone have a good cell phone reverse lookup site?