Cynthia Hetherington

HetheringtonGroup.com

Effectively Using Social

Networks and Social Media in

Fraud Examinations

Maximizing Your Search, Minimizing Your

Time

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Create a Throwaway E-Mail Account

Set up an undercover account on Hotmail,

Yahoo!, or Gmail

Do NOT use the following in your account:

• Your name

• Geography

• Team

• NASCAR

• Hobby

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Using eBay

Go to Advanced Search from the homepage, upper right

corner

Choose Find a Member from the left column

Type in the first

half of the person’s

personal e-mail

address.

For example:

crazybird@gmail.com

Type incrazybird”

Check HR for the

person’s resume for

old email addresses.

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eBay

Multiple

results to

explore!

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Reach Deeper into the Listing

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http://www.rhinosoftware.com/pics/lancets3.gif

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Read the entire page for clues.

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Whois Searching

Whois will tell you the ownership and

registration information for a website

• domaintools.com

Tracing IP addresses

• whatismyipaddress.com

• traceroute.org

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Craigslist.org

Craigslist is an online emporium—or a flea

market, depending on your perspective.

The catch to searching in Craigslist is the

geographic restriction.

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Craigslist.org

Ultimately you will need to hunt and peck

Craig Newmark is one of the last holdouts

Search strategy through Google.com

• Site:craigslist.org <expression>

• Searchtempest.com

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Zoominfo.com

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Just Like a Résumé

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Nonprofits and Charities

GuideStar.org • Search GuideStar’s database of more than 700,000 U.S.

nonprofit organizations.

noza990pf.com • Noza gathered data about private foundation

activities that may be of interest to grantseekers, philanthropic organizations, and individual donors. It has information about more than 60,000 nonprofit organizations.

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