Corporate Investigations
Sharpline’s private investigators are specialists in corporate investigations and fraud prevention services. According to a study conducted by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), internal theft is the biggest contributor to financial losses for corporations. Each year businesses lose more than 5% of their revenues to fraud. Small businesses are the most vulnerable and suffer the biggest losses when it comes to fraud.
Digital forensics, surveillance, and undercover operations are all forms of effective fact-finding strategies utilized by our private investigators while conducting corporate fraud investigations.
Corporate Investigations
Sharpline’s private investigators have extensive training and knowledge in conducting corporate investigations. Our private investigators detect financial losses, identify the responsible parties involved, recover losses, and create a client specific solution shown to decrease fraud within the work place.
Our private investigators are Certified Fraud Examiners and use effective fact-finding strategies during our corporate fraud investigations. Our strategies include but are not limited to surveillance and undercover operations, GPS fleet tracking, employee interviews, the identification of witnesses, and the retrieval and examination of critical documents and data.
The following are some of the fraudulent activities we investigate:
- Unauthorized wiring of funds without proper authorizations
- Unexplained inventory loss
- Corporate espionage
- Non-compete/non-solicitation violations
- Employee misconduct
- Internal theft of product and inventory
- Mismanagement and theft of intellectual property
Digital Forensics
Does your business utilize laptops, desktops, tablets, PDAs, smartphones, printers, email servers, file servers, external storage devices, websites or social media accounts? If so, you are generating data. These volumes of data can tell a story about who initially created it, how it was created, and when it was created. It can also reveal if the data was ever moved. This will help to provide you with the user that moved the data and the location it was moved to. When fraudulent activity arises within your business, data retrieval and analysis plays an integral part in conducting a successful investigation.
Standard Surveillance & Undercover Operations
Our private investigators are specialists in covert business surveillance and undercover operations. Sharpline’s private investigators are highly trained and can be strategically placed within a business to pose as an employee or customer. Undercover operations have proven to assist in saving businesses money. Our private investigators can uncover internal theft and even identify other types of fraud. Surveillance and undercover operations will provide you with an unbiased approach into how your business is being run and what is really going on while you are not there.
Our private investigators utilize numerous surveillance methods to match your specific requirements. Prior to the start of your case, preliminary site reconnaissance is conducted to determine the best course of action. During this initial phase, Sharpline’s private investigators will document the surroundings in detail. This will help our private investigators in constructing a well-organized and effective operations plan.
State-of-the-art monitoring equipment is deployed by our private investigators to document evidence during the investigation. Our equipment is carefully selected based on our site reconnaissance.
Sharpline’s private investigators also realize that surveillance is not only conducted within the confines of a vehicle. We have implemented alternative surveillance techniques in the event the subject travels to a location not accessible by vehicle. Sharpline also has an All-Terrain and Marine Unit, which has the ability to launch anywhere within the state of Florida.
Complex Surveillance Operations
Depending on the complexity of your case, two or more private investigators might be required to conduct your surveillance. The addition of private investigators are recommend on a case by case basis. This is determined after evaluating the specific needs of your case. The use of two or more private investigators has shown to increase the success of your case and the collection of evidence. This method allows for constant flexibility even when our private investigators are encountered with uncontrolled variables. The use of two or more private investigators is not required but highly recommended to produce the highest quality of results in the most demanding cases.