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Case Study: ‘Movie Star Planet’
A client approached us with screen-shots of their daughter’s movements and conversations on a smartphone / tablet app called “Movie Star Planet”. The conversations between their 12-year-old daughter and what she believed was an 11-year-old girl from a different school in the area were developing into content of a highly questionable and suspect nature.
The first thing we did was educate ourselves on the app itself, what its purpose was for users and what restrictions were in place to prevent those it wasn’t designed for (i.e. adults) from accessing it for nefarious purposes with its target base (i.e. children).
We work with solicitors, insurers and HR professionals on a lot of our bigger and lengthier investigatory cases and, when we do, there’s really no way of getting away from the fact that long-form interviews are going to be a necessary part of the process.
We recently consulted with a prospective client who had serious concerns about a member of staff they recently employed and had been working at the potential client’s company for just over one month.
Nowadays, we’re finding more and more people are offering ‘female only’ self-defence classes that are simply ‘boxercise’ classes in disguise. Such classes will certainly get you fit and help you lose weight, but learning how to speed punch whilst Rihanna is played loudly in the background will not serve alone as the best form of protection against an attack upon your person.
Whether it be a loved one you’ve lost touch with or someone needing traced because of debt, inheritance or business obligations, no matter the situation Surmount Investigations can provide an extensive and thorough search and tracking investigation service.