A new BBC documentary featuring Stacey Dooley investigating stalkers has this week aired on UK screens. The hard-hitting yet sensitively made documentary comes at an incredibly apt time, a time when women’s safety is finally and rightly in the spotlight. Sarah Everard, Sabina Nessa and Ashling Murphy are just three of the women who have…
The pandemic has changed the working environment beyond recognition and that includes the prevalence of employee absenteeism. In a time where greater flexibility is expected by employees, being able to control when and how people are working is becoming increasingly difficult and putting HR teams and small businesses under huge pressures. Insight Investigations have seen…
At Insight Investigations we are consistently monitoring the evolving tactics of internet scammers in order for our specialist team to provide the right support to our clients when the worst does happen. We recently looked at “how to spot a COVID scam” where our specialist online fraud team outlined some of the most common scams…
The new technological development of faking GPS locations is just one of the advances in tech which has reshaped the way we live, interact and behave, but in the context of extramarital affairs it’s something which can enable partners to adopt second lives easily with very little chance of detection. Our dedicated relationships team here…
The rise of internet dating scams during the pandemic has seen many people across the UK, both men and women, duped out of their life savings. As lockdown restrictions begin to ease we take a look at the dangers of both dating “in real life” and app dating. The COVID pandemic has changed the way…
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With so many different methods adopted by scam artists, it can be hard to spot a COVID scam, however being able to identify the tell-tale signs of these sophisticated fraudsters is more important than ever. Action Fraud estimates that £34.5 million has been stolen using these types of scams since 1 March 2020. Over the…
Insight’s London based private Investigators and Detectives operate in a very different way to the operative teams in our other regional hubs. At Insight Investigations we have field agents and operational teams stationed across the country and our specialist London regional team understands how to navigate the complexities of the UK’s capital city. Each…
When asking the question – Who was the best TV private detective of all time? – we first need to understand why the world of private detectives has always been an area of fascination for many. Private detective shows shouldn’t be confused with police dramas – in fact the role of the private detective in…
Intellectual property theft can mean different things from copyright infringement to patent theft and is a very complex area to navigate with many different licences and regulations. The theft of intellectual property can be costly in the immediate term with loss of sales or market share but can also cause long term and irreparable damage…
In these current times, the act of Due Diligence is of the utmost importance, not only in terms of “know your client”, but to also know what your client wants and what do they want it for? Insight Investigations are bound to the Code of Ethics of its membership of The World Association of Professional…
