The TLO that Stings
December 28, 2018 Valerie McGilvrey You should wait to sign your new TLO contract. At least wait until after January 1, [...]
Eric Neal and Valerie McGilvrey Talk POE’s
Eric Neil, Michael Reid and Valerie McGilvrey talk about locating a skip’s place of employment on Process Server [...]
Tracing Hookers
For professional skip tracing! This list is not for getting your freak on. The FBI seized Backpage.com and the adult [...]
Process Server Daily
I had a great time talking with Michael Reid, the host of Process Server Daily. You can catch all the episodes after you [...]
Prepaid Phone Reverse Reality
Prepaid phones have become the most popular type of consumer cellular phone account today. You can juggle the reasons why [...]
The Database Dilemma
We have to have them to survive in our industry and we jump through hoops to get them and some jump through flaming [...]
Amazon Hack
Today I’m wearing a bright Amazon smile because of a newly discovered way to tap into the biggest database of online [...]
Apps for Cyber Tracking
by Valerie McGilvery Apps for skip tracing haven’t really caught my eye until recently. I drove around an unfamiliar [...]
The Ultimate Skip Trace List
Written by Valerie McGilvrey Author of Skip Trace Secrets: Dirty little tricks skip tracer use… For permission to use [...]
Hide and Go Seek
Valerie McGilvrey thedailyskip.com We’ve all be there, on one side of the door or the other. I’ve been served [...]
How to Hypnotize Someone on the Phone
Hypnotize someone on the phone? Really? I’ve been skip tracing for so many years that I can read a voice, a [...]
The Government’s Spyware Hacked Plus Defense Measures For You
FinFisher Spyware, a spyware application used by government and law enforcement agencies for the purpose of surveillance, [...]
Cell Phone Spyware
by Valerie McGilvrey It’s a dream come true right? Just send a text message to a cell phone and then magically you’ll be [...]
Driver’s License Status Links
Many states provide little to no information regarding the status of a drivers license. You could be in an investigation [...]
Want to find out the truth? Send a text message!
Text messaging is a surprisingly good way to get candid responses to sensitive questions, according to a new study to be [...]
Cell Phone Trace
by Valerie McGilvrey Sometimes all that I’ve located on a skip is a cell phone number. While collection laws prohibit [...]
The California Private Investigator
Written by Shaun Sundhal There’s two objectives in writing this book. The first objective is to help readers [...]
Skiptracing with NCOA
By Robert Scott, PI & CEO, SkipSmasher.com “NCOA” is short for National Change of Address — the U.S. [...]
Skip Trace Seminar EXCLUSIVE by Robert Scott
Skiptracing through Family Members By Robert Scott, PI & CEO, SkipSmasher.com So what happens when your favorite people [...]
99 Things Every Expert Skiptracer Knows (or Should Know)
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SUBSCRIBERS: PICA (Professional Investigators of California) is sponsoring two Los Angeles-area [...]
The Pretext Playbook Excerpt
The following is a short excerpt from The Pretext Playbook by James O’ Reilly with permissions. “A [...]
The Independent Skip Tracer
Skip tracing is so much more than just finding a person. A skip tracer is a facilitator. A go-to person that finds things [...]
Jail Searches
How many times have you searched for an individual only to find that they are incarcerated? I always begin my search with a [...]
New Facebook Privacy Policy Means Better Skip Tracing
October 23, 2013 Valerie McGilvrey The powers at Facebook have been very busy yanking away the cloak of privacy and gives no [...]
Dial My Calls
Link to sign up here. Dial my calls is an amazon tool for any self employed investigator. Not only can it be used to reach [...]
Tiny Tracker Tile
Have you seen this very cool little thing? A tiny tile that you can stick to anything for $25.00 and track it when you lose [...]
Cell Phone Busts
For what ever reason you are searching for someone- time is money. The faster you can find someone the quicker you [...]
More TLO Madness
TLO filed bankruptcy today and made quite a few headlines in the investigative community. Comments about TLO’s policy [...]
Faxing Negotiations
Getting a fax number from a debtor or faxing to a debtor so that you can get a land line number to trace can be an innocent [...]
Misinformation
The biggest part of my job is on the back-end of a contract. Looking for the person that defaulted so that my client can [...]
Hey Texas Process Servers!
On November 2nd and 3rd the Texas Process Servers Association Convention will be hosting Valerie McGilvrey so she can dish [...]
Skip Trace Wiki
Soon to be released, Skipease: Skip Trace Wiki Old school skip trace methods just got a new playground. Check out the new [...]
Smartphon’d
Once upon a time in a land close to where you’re sitting right now, there was a sleazy snake oil salesman with a [...]