Case Study: Avoiding a “Catfish”

By Brian Willingham In early December 2015, we were contacted by Antonio, a businessman from California. He had been in an online relationship with Andrea for over a year. Andrea lived halfway across the country and things had been going well, but Antonio had become suspicious of her recent activities. They met through an online dating site. Over the year,

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The Achilles’ Heel of Social Media Snooping

By Brian Willingham A few weeks ago, the Telegraph published fascinating stories about how the “naive heirs” of the super rich were putting the family assets at risk by flaunting their lavish lifestyles on social media. It reported that social media posts were being used as evidence in 75 percent of litigation cases and, in one particular case in which

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Peyton Manning Hired PIs to Investigate the Sources of a Documentary That Implicated Him in a Doping Scandal

By admin An Al Jazeera documentary entitled The Dark Side: The Secret World of Sports Doping alleged that Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning was one of several star athletes who had used performance-enhancing drugs. To fight these allegations, Peyton hired the former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer who now works as a crisis management consultant. The Washington Post reported how

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