Skip Trace Secrets Dirty Little Seminar
The Skip Trace Secrets Dirty Little Seminar is filling up. There are only 31 open seats so if you’re planning on [...]
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 [...]
5 Awesome New Apps To Up Your Game
Plext Free iTunes & Android Plext.me Did the car in the next space park so close that you could only get into your car [...]
What is Your Body Saying?
As we all know, communication is essential in society. Advancements in technology have transformed the way that we [...]
TLO Hammers Down
If you’re a Google, Yahoo, or LinkedIn investigation group subscriber then you’ve probably heard the latest TLO [...]
Amazon Hack
Today I’m wearing a bright Amazon smile because of a newly discovered way to tap into the biggest database of online [...]
Locating Employment
Valerie McGilvrey There’s many reasons why you need to skip trace a place of employment (POE) on someone. For me, it [...]
Credit Report How To’s & Why’s
The first reason to request a credit report is the obvious; looking for the golden egg. A new address, phone number [...]
Hello, My Name is Valerie McGilvrey
Many of you already know me as a skip tracer who shares the interesting and successful ways I’ve discovered to [...]
Let’s Play Make Believe
[Update 2/10/2016: Edens was sentenced to one year in federal prison and three years probation after release. He has been [...]
The Phone Trap
And one day it happened, without any notice, causing an upheaval in my regular cell phone routine. Apple quietly changed [...]
12 Questions that Lead to Love
by Valerie McGilvrey The Daily Skip In the true spirit of my favorite Cosmo Quizzes, let’s lend some intelligent [...]
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. [...]
Free Databases: The List
The most complete list of free (or very cheap) online searches can be found on the OSINT Training website. His list of [...]
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 [...]
Roll Blogger Roll!
April 1, 2014 by Valerie McGilvrey [email protected] There’s quite a few people around that have some really [...]
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 [...]
The Most Useful Websites
The quest for tools in small business operations is gaining value. There are more sites that fill the gap to make our jobs [...]
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 [...]
Skip Trace Tips
The following links are from Time Finance Adjusters on YouTube. I normally comb the internet looking for skip trace tips [...]
A Pretext for Every Occassion
I bought The Pretext Play Book as soon as the mass email hit my inbox. Here is another WOW book from a career investigator. [...]
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 [...]
Social Media Skip Tracing
Modern-day private investigators have more tools at their fingertips than ever before. Where they used to have to comb [...]
Interrogation
by John Bowden Director of APTAC at APTACTraining.com Origionally published at PoliceOne.com Encarta Dictionary defines [...]
Background Checks Miss the Mark
The teacher arrived with excellent credentials and more than 20 years of experience in the classroom when he accepted a [...]
Agency Marketing
Hera are 73 tips and suggestions for marketing your skip tracing services. 1) Get Active on Twitter It takes just a few [...]
Cell Phone Surveillance
WASHINGTON — In the first public accounting of its kind, cellphone carriers reported that they responded to a startling [...]
Background Searches
Excerpt from Skip Trace Secrets – Dirty little tricks skip tracers use… What do background searches consist of? [...]
The Way We Were
What was it before it was skip tracing? Raymond Gravis, born in 1938, wrote a book titled Skip Tracing Made Easy and I [...]
Repossessions, Collections & the FDCPA
Over thirty years ago, Congress gave the citizens of the United States the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, most commonly [...]
A Fine Mobile Mess
Finding a land line phone number for a skip is as rare as finding a wheat penny in your grocery store change.
Stop Harassing Me!
Just a few good notes that I have gathered from other sources that enforce a creditors attempt to collect their own debt. [...]
Join Me & Mike Gibb on Repo Pulse
[The conversation will be available on Repopulse.com] A neat thing coming up on December 10th, I’ll be sitting in a [...]