Corporate
Fraud Investigations
Investigation of consumer, contract, investment and marriage fraud - establishing who is actually on the other side of a deal and whether they have done this before.
- #1 Private Investigator in Texas
- Texas License #12818
- Twenty-five years of experience
- Marine veteran owned
- Statewide Texas coverage
- Free confidential consultation
What this is
Fraud Investigations, in plain terms.
When a deal is too good to be true it is usually a bad deal. That is not cynicism, it is arithmetic: a return nobody else can offer generally exists because the person offering it is not planning to pay it. The hardest part of fraud is not spotting it afterwards. It is being willing to check while it still feels rude.
Fraud investigation is almost entirely records and pattern. Is the entity real. Has this person operated under other names. Are there judgments, prior suits, regulatory actions, bankruptcies. Have other people made the same complaint somewhere it got written down. The pattern is what turns a bad feeling into something you can act on.
The work
What actually gets done.
- Verify identity, name history and stated credentials.
- Verify the entity: registration, standing, officers and assumed names.
- Search civil litigation, judgments, liens, bankruptcies and regulatory actions.
- Trace what actually happened to money or property, through records.
- Identify other complainants and the pattern across them.
- Package the file for counsel, for law enforcement or for a regulator.
Corporate
Independent, and documented that way.
A finding only holds if the person who made it had no stake in it. That is what an outside investigator is for, and it is why the methodology is written down alongside the conclusion.
What you get
At the end of it.
- A written investigation report with the documents behind it.
- An account of the pattern, where one exists.
- A file organized so a prosecutor or a regulator can use it.
- A frank opinion on recovery, which is often the hardest part.
When people call
The three situations we hear most.
Something is being sold too hard
Urgency and exclusivity are the two most reliable indicators there are.
You have already paid
Then the questions become who they really are and whether anything is recoverable.
You are not the only one
Multiple complainants change what law enforcement and regulators will do.
Questions
About this service.
Can you get my money back?
We cannot promise recovery and we will not pretend otherwise. What we can do is establish who the person is, find what they hold of record, and give counsel or a prosecutor a file they can act on.
Should I report it to the police first?
Usually yes, and we will work alongside that. A documented private investigation frequently gets an under-resourced fraud complaint the attention it needs.
What if I am not sure it is fraud?
That is the best time to call. Verification before the money moves is the cheapest work in this entire catalog.
Is the first conversation really free?
Yes, and it is confidential. You describe the situation, we tell you whether an investigation is likely to help, roughly what it would involve and what it would cost. There is no charge for that call and no obligation at the end of it.
More in this area
Other services in Corporate.
Where we work
Four metros, and the rest of Texas.
Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin and San Antonio are where most cases start. Coverage runs to the whole state, and records and asset work is run nationally.
Free consultation
Tell us what is going on. The first call is free.
Describe the situation and we will tell you honestly whether an investigation would help, what it would involve and what it would cost. Confidential, no obligation, and no charge for the conversation.