A 2013 report suggested that 70% of companies fell victim to business fraud in 2013. This was up from 61% in 2012. I previously wrote a piece for the Orange County Business Journal about common ways OC businesses are getting ripped off every year. In this post, I’m listing popular types of fraud facing businesses…
This post discusses details about the most useful tool in any skilled private investigator’s arsenal: The art of interview and interrogation. This seems to be a topic of great interest to people, mostly because of the portrayal of interrogation on television, from the multiple incarnations of Law & Order to Jack Bauer threatening to shove…
Employee theft is rampant these days. The numbers don’t lie. All the top investigative and security agencies have the same statistics. From 1969 to 2006, the theft rate in most companies was about 15%. The figures has risen over the past years and is now holding steady at a staggering 75%. It isn’t always as straightforward…
Most industry giants rely on patented and protected information for their edge, and corporate espionage is always present within the ranks of major players. A recent conviction highlights just how serious the consequences can be for the theft of intellectual property and trade secrets – for the victims and the spies. Recently, information was stolen…
The corporate thief is an individual we deal with on a regular basis. The statistics on the percentage of employees stealing from 1969 to the third quarter of 2006 remained constant at approximately 15%. This is not only our company’s findings but consistent with the top firms in the Untied States engaged in rooting out…
To many, corporate espionage is one of those things they only ever hear about on the big screen. It belongs in a James Bond movie or maybe a Grisham novel. But the truth is that corporate espionage is a very real threat to just about any company facing stiff competition in their industry. One recent…
A corporate executive at a medium-sized business suspected his staff of employee theft. He came to our private investigation agency and wanted us to investigate. In a very short amount of time, we found out that nearly ALL of his staff was stealing from him, and as a result he had to fire all of…
A hospital in Illinois recently hired the private investigators at Martin Investigative Services to perform a theft investigation involving a fraudulent order for $3 million worth of computers. We found the money in a bank in Curacao and retrieved the funds and retrieved the money for the client.
A large soda pop manufacturer in Southern California suspected that they had a growing problem with employee theft, and called upon Martin Investigative Services to investigate. Management at the company recommended that we put undercover agents in their main factory. As this is a very expensive and time-intensive option, we convinced the executives to allow…
How do you pull off a diamond theft worth over $100,000? A man simply walked out of Tiffany’s flagship store in New York City in the middle of the day with two diamond necklaces. In an interview with abcnews.com, Thomas Martin, a former federal agent and head of Martin Investigative Services in California, commented that…
