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Experience is Prepared - AFI-LLC Newsletter November 2020

News From Around Our Profession
We are dedicated to sharing important news from clients, colleagues and friends about the
news - good and bad - from and about our profession. Our thanks to all who help
contribute. Feel free to email us with any news you have about you, your agency, your
association, and others...

Is Your Agency or Association Offering Webinars?
Our agency is available to help you with various topics and virtual speaking
engagements.

Here is a live clip from one we did the beginning of September for the Florida Association of Licensed Investigators (FALI)
- Motor Vehicle Death and SBI Investigations www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2758800377778586

If you, or your association, is offering continuing education webinars or events – we are glad to share in our newsletters.

Will Pretexting Be A Thing Of The Past?
(Taylor Rodgers – exclusively for members of www.Investigators-Toolbox.com)
The FCC has recently released a mandate in reference to pretexting and the phone companies guidelines to implement
caller ID to combat spoofed phone calls. Pretexting has been an essential tool used by private investigators to obtain
information from someone about something.
-- Login or join Investigators Toolbox for this article

Eight charged in alleged Chinese plot to coerce family to return from US
(Matt Spaier – Satellite Investigations of NY)
A private investigator from NJ was arrested for Spying on an individual for the Chinese Government. The Investigator
from NJ was accused of surveilling and harassing a subject in in Queens, NY. It was not disclosed if the investigator knew
he was in fact working for the Chinese Government, but this is a reminder of really understanding who your client is and
what they are asking you to do.

Eight people have been charged with conspiring to work on behalf of China’s government in a plot to coerce a Chinese
family in the US to return to their home country to face charges. Five of the individuals charged, including an American
private investigator, were arrested on Wednesday in New Jersey, New York and California. The rest are believed to be in
China, top justice department officials said in a news conference.
-- read the full story at www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/28/chinese-plot-coerce-family-return-from-us

How COVID-19 Restrictions Changed Private Investigations
(PI Now – Stephanie Irvine)
Undoubtedly, the change in these behaviors has altered, at least in some ways, how private investigators conduct their
investigations. Now, as we are now six months into living in a world with COVID-19, we are taking a moment to reflect
on how restrictions and the virus have impacted the industry.
-- read the full article at www.pinow.com/articles/2981/how-covid-19-restrictions-changed-private-investigations

Timestamp Camera App
(Troy Fleming – Inner Circle of Investigators & Paralegal / Legal Investigator for Lytal, Reiter, Smith, Ivey & Fronrath of FL)
“This is pretty amazing “APP” documents time, longitude latitude and more pertaining to crash scene pictures, etc.“

Timestamp Camera can add time and location watermark to photo and video when captured accurate to the second.
Add current time and location when recorded or captured, change the time format or select the location easily.
-- details at www.timestampcamera.com

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