Thursday, December 28, 2006

Craigslist

Here's another example of someone who thought they could get away with illegal behavior on the Internet. Some people still do not understand that they can be identified and located from just an email account or message board posting.
I guess that's what keeps us in business.
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Ex-Gossip Editor Convicted on Sex Charge
Former Us Weekly gossip columnist Timothy McDarrah,
arrested in New York last year by undercover federal agents, has been
found guilty of charges related to soliciting sex with a minor.

McDarrah, a former reporter at the Las
Vegas Sun, was arrested after being charged with trying to seduce an
undercover federal agent posing on the Internet as a 13-year-old girl.

He
was charged with one count of using a computer and the Internet "to
attempt to entice, induce, coerce and persuade a minor to engage in
sexual activity," according to an indictment handed up in November He
was convicted Dec. 20 after an eight-day jury trial in New York, and
faces a mandatory minimum of five years in prison, according to court
documents.

McDarrah, 44, responded in June 2005 to a posting on the craigslist.com
Web site offering introductions to the "freshest, youngest" girls in
New York, an FBI affidavit said. The gossip writer told an undercover
FBI agent, who had posted the advertisement to lure pedophiles, that he
would pay $200 for sex with a 13-year-old girl, the affidavit said.

After his arrest, McDarrah was suspended without pay from his post as the editor of Us Weekly's "Hot Stuff" column. From 2002 to 2004, he worked as a gossip columnist at the Las Vegas Sun.

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Monday, December 25, 2006

Happy Holidays ?

Are the Holidays really all that happy? Not for everyone that's for sure.
Did you know that cyber stalking and online harrassment increases around a Holiday?
It's true. In fact we tailor some of our online investigations around Hilidays or the clients birthday or anniversary. For whatever reasons people on the Internet fight more around Holidays and stalkers pick Holidays or days that are significant to us to engage in their obsession.

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Sunday, December 10, 2006

Online dating: Everyone’s doing it

WOW! According to a recent MSNBC article about online dating web sites "Research published earlier this year indicated that about one-third of online personals users are married; Clifford thinks 20 million married Americans will be interested in using online personals in the coming years."

Well that might be news to some people but not to the trained investigators at www.emailrevealer.com . we have been aware of that fact for some time now. thats why we invented the "Dating Service (infidelity) Assessment" search.
If you suspect your spouse, or lover is cheating this should be your first step in catching that suspected cheater.

MSNBC.com

Online dating: Everyone’s doing it
A dot-com business that actually makes a profit
By Bob Sullivan
Technology correspondent
MSNBC

Sept. 19, 2002 - Selling love over the Internet seems like the perfect business model. Virtually all your content is donated for free. Your customers are motivated by the strongest urges mother nature can conjure up. And they think $20 a month is cheap compared to the price of a drink at a singles’ bar. Until recently, there had been a catch — the weird factor. But that’s a distant memory now, since it seems everyone’s doing it. Virtual matchmaking has become the Internet’s third killer app, behind e-mail and the Web. Can the “mad growth,” and genuine profits, continue?

Far from the cloak-and-dagger days of newspaper personals, online dating has gone mainstream. Match.com sponsored NBC’s Wimbledon coverage last month. Yuppie New Yorkers sometimes include their Nerve.com aliases in every e-mail, as part of their virtual calling card.

Over 18 million people visited online personal Web sites in June, according to research firm Jupiter/Media Metrix — up from 14.8 million last October. And nearly one in five men who are online say they do some “window shopping” on the personals at least once a month.

Those meteoric growth numbers have been seen before in the age of the Internet, from many dot-com flameouts. But there’s a critical difference in the online personals space — paying subscribers.

Perhaps money can’t buy you love. But love, it turns out, is one of the few things people are willing to buy online.

A real return to romance
Market leader Match.com now has 600,000 customers forking over about $25 a month.

uDate.com, which also operates Kiss.com, had $1.5 million in revenue in June 2001; last month alone, the company took in $4 million, according to president Martin Clifford, and the company has just enjoyed its fourth straight profitable quarter.

Yahoo, No. 2 in the online personals category, is much cagier about its growth, but the company beat its chest about its love site at its most recent quarterly earnings announcement, saying personals made a “very significant contribution” to revenues.

“I don’t know if you’ll continue to see the current mad growth,” said Jupiter analyst Stacey Herron. “But online personals will still grow at a healthy rate.”

The key, Match.com president Tim Sullivan says, has been marketing efforts to “legitimize the category” during the past 12 months.

“My own sister got married last month to a guy she met on Match. It’s very mainstream now,” Sullivan said. “Anywhere I go, if I’m in a crowd of more than 6 people and say what I do, invariably someone comes forward and says that they have been using Match.”

A database of dates
Running an online personal business is a pretty cheap date. People volunteer themselves, and their photographs, as a constant supply of free, compelling content. All the sites do is manage a searchable database and work to develop smarter search tools that let suitors sort through potential dates.

“I have 43 employees, and we’ll bring in $43 million this year. That’s $1 million per employee,” Clifford said. “We have zero cost of sales within our business ...The margins are almost super-margins.”

Naturally, the super-margins — not to mention real profits when the rest of the dot-com world has imploded — have entrepreneurs falling all over each other for a piece of the love pie. Jupiter now tracks 29 general-purpose online dating sites with catchy names like “Crushlink.com,” “Heartdetectives.com,” and “Datadate.com.”

And then there’s the second-tier, specialty sites, like the aggressively sexy “Nerve.com” or “PlanetOut.com,” which have dedicated followings and promise users a more targeted field of prospective dates.

Niche Web communities, which have been jealously eyeing the love profits, are jumping on the bandwagon too. Personal ads are being sprinkled on top of established Web communities all over the Internet. Journalists looking to date other journalists, for example, can now find their future mate at Mediabistro.com — which was founded as a writer’s professional networking tool.

The sites operate in nearly exactly the same way, allowing directed searches on everything from zip code to height to salary to eye color — then providing some kind of computerized matchmaking to supplement personal searches. Most offer regular e-mails with rosters of computer-selected candidates. uDate.com offers a specialized service called “Encounters” which tells you if a member has even looked at your ad — a mixed blessing that allows for some additional interaction possibilities (“So, I noticed you gave my personal the once over last night. Want to chat?”)

But there’s a sizable drop-off in users after personals titans Yahoo and Match.com, and the smaller players face a problem that’s similar to what eBay’s competitors face — people tend to go where the largest crowds gather. Just like more bidders mean higher prices for auction sellers, more personals subscribers means more possible dates.

So, many in the crowded field won’t last, Jupiter’s Stacey Herron thinks. “I do not think all these sites can hang onto the fueled growth we’re seeing right now,” she said. “They’re banking on people signing up for 3 to 5 dating services, and some are. But that won’t always be the case.”

Lookers and payers
There’s another fundamental problem for the business right now — window shoppers and free riders. Each dating site works the same — posting a profile of yourself, including photographs, is free. So is browsing through the thousands of eligible people. And with some, you are even notified that a prospective mate is trying to contact you. But to contact your future date, you have to take the plunge over the subscription wall. And right now, dating sites aren’t faring all that well at getting customers to take the plunge.

While 6 million people each month visit Match.com, and the service boasts 3.25 million profiles of eligible people, only 600,000 are paying customers. That 6-to-1 conversion ratio is typical, the other sites say, and they are all experimenting with ways to push lurkers over the subscription wall.

“We spend a lot of time figuring out creative ways to market to those users, trying to find the magic pixie dust to turn them into a paid subscriber,” said Yahoo’s Katie Mitnik. “The single best thing you can do is show this person appropriate (candidates).” Yahoo, like most other services, offers regular e-mails with lists of computer-generated matches, hoping that one of them will be enticing enough to get an unpaid registrant to fork over their credit card.

The heartbroken come back

On the other side of the coin, dating sites have an odd problem — generally speaking, a successful customer goes away. In fact, 75 times each month, Match.com users marry each other, taking at least 150 users out of the system.

But success stories actually generate much more business than they cost, Sullivan says.

“If a person joins Match.com, we hope they resign in one month because they found ‘that’ person,” Sullivan said. “There is not a better marketing voice for us than someone who meets their person online and tells their friends. In this business, churn is a wonderful thing.”

Besides, Clifford said, the singles population is constantly changing, with children coming of age, breakups and divorce. “The census bureau statistics will not change as a result of online personals getting people together,” he said. “There will always be plenty of single people.”

Also keeping business rolling: plenty of relationships that begin with an e-mail introduction don’t work out — and apparently, the heartbroken don’t blame the breakup on the matchmaker. Nearly one-quarter of people who quit the online personals site, presumably because they’ve found someone, come back and resubscribe within the next 12 months, Sullivan said. That kind of repeat business would make any industry take notice.

Married, but looking
Just as love can be messy, and so can the love business. It turns out that personals are popular not only with the brokenhearted, but also with broken marriages, putting the sites at the center of some sticky moral questions. Research published earlier this year indicated that about one-third of online personals users are married; Clifford thinks 20 million married Americans will be interested in using online personals in the coming years.

The sites deal with the thorny issue differently. If anything can stunt growth of the personals category, Sullivan says, it’s illegitimacy, or the general feeling that online personals are only for people who need to meet others in secrecy. So Match.com won’t let people who declare themselves married register at the site. And if the company hears that a customer has lied about their marital status, they are dismissed.

“Legitimizing the category is our internal mantra,” Sullivan said. “We choose to make Match.com stand for something everyone feels is legitimate.”

Yahoo and uDate, on the other hand, leave the policing up to the users. Until recently, Yahoo had a category called “married but looking,” but has removed the feature.

“It’s just a fact of life. Look at the divorce rate,” Clifford said. “The fact that a significant number of married individuals are using online dating services gives more credence to the sustainability of the market... From a social perspective, this has some disadvantages, and from a business perspective it has advantages.”

Besides, Yahoo’s Mitnik says, not all those married people hanging out at online personals sites are looking for a fling. Many have far more wholesome motives.

“There’s huge entertainment value in searching through online personals,” she said. “We try to get them to work for us, too. So for example, we made it easy to e-mail (personal) ads to friends. These people are married matchmakers. .. And we pick up a fair number of subscriptions from that.”

The other personal sites have similar “e-mail a friend” features — meaning they’ve learned to monazite the strongest urge in the world, the urge to find love, but also the second strongest urge: the urge to meddle in your friends’ love-lives.


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Saturday, December 9, 2006

Email Tracing

Most people think that when they are on the Internet they are anonymous. That's fine if all you do is have a little innocent fun, do some research and chat with friends. Unfortunately that feeling of annonymity has encouraged some people to cross over the lines of common decency.
This has brought about a subculture of Internet scam artists, con artists, cyber stalkers and predators.
Thats how EmailRevealer.com got started.
About 10 years ago I was a victim of some online stalkers. I won't go into the details but it was a nightmare. I tried going to lawyers, the police and various ISPs trying to get help identifying my stalkers. I soon found out it was next to impossible to get any help at all.
Having worked in the field of private investigations since the 80s I set out to track down and identify the online stalkers myself.
Using some old fashoined tried and true skiptracing techniques and some state of the art computer technology I was able to develop a system to identify and track down people on the internet using only a screen name , email address or Instant Messenger Name.
Over the I have sucessfully Identified thousands of people using these methods. Tracking down bail jumpers, run a way teenagers, cyber stalkers and con artists.
I find thiswork very interesting and rewarding. If you are having a problem online please don't hesitate to contact my office so we can look into solving your problem.
Ed
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Friday, December 8, 2006

Some interesting statistics about “on line” activity

Some interesting statistics about “on line” activity
57% of people have used the Internet to flirt. (Greenfield and Rivet - Internet Use & Abuse Survey 1999).
38% of people have engaged in explicit online sexual conversation and 50% of people have made phone contact with someone they chatted with online. (Greenfield and Rivet - Internet Use & Abuse Survey 1999).
Evidence proves there is a high correlation between on-line cybersex and subsequent real-time sexual affairs. (Greenfield and Rivet - Internet Use & Abuse Survey 1999)
31% of people have had an online conversation that has led to real-time sex. (Greenfield and Rivet - Internet Use & Abuse Survey 1999)

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46 Clues Your Partner is Having an Affair

46 Clues Your Partner is Having an Affairby Dr. Robert Huizenga, The Infidelity Coach
Some of these signs of cheating are "tongue in cheek" while others are tell-tale signs that commonly appear with a cheating husband or cheating wife.
1) You find birth-control pills in her medicine cabinet, and you've had avasectomy.
2) Mutual friends start acting strangely toward you. (They either knowabout the cheating or have been told stories about what a horrible wifeor girlfriend you are.)
3) Your cheating husband or wife stops confiding in you and seeking advice from you.
4) Sets up a new e-mail account and doesn't tell you about it.
5) He leaves the house in the morning smelling like Irish Spring andreturns in the evening smelling like Safeguard.
6) She joins the gym and begins a rigorous workout program.
7) She buys a cell phone and doesn't let you know.
8) He sets up a separate cell phone account that is billed to his office.
9) The cheating husband carries condoms, and you are on the pill.
10) Begins to delete all incoming phone calls from the caller ID.
11) Deletes all incoming e-mails when they used to accumulate.
12) He becomes "accusatory," asking if you are being true to him, usually out of guilt.
13) Raises hypothetical questions such as, "Do you think it's possibleto love more than one person at a time?"
14) He buys himself new underwear.
15) He insists the child seat, toys, etc., are kept out of his car.
16) The cheating wife stops wearing her wedding ring.
17) Has a sudden desire to be helpful with the laundry.
18) Has unexplained scratches or bruises on his or her neck or back.
19) Suddenly wants to try new love techniques.
20) He/she fairly suddenly stops having sex with you.
21) He/she suddenly wants more sex, more often.
22) Supposedly works a lot of overtime, but it never shows up on thepay stub.
23) Picks fights in order to stomp out of the house.
24) You find out by accident he or she took vacation day or personaltime off from work - but supposedly worked on those days.
25) Shows a sudden interest in a different type of music.
26) Spouse's co-workers are uncomfortable in your presence.
27) Has a sudden preoccupation with his or her appearance.
28) Spends an excessive amount of time on the computer, especiallyafter you have gone to bed.
29) He throws up a lot because he just ate at his mistress's house andhad to eat the dinner you prepared when he got home.
30) Your spouse is away from home, either nights or on trips, morethan previously.
31) His/her clothes smell of an unfamiliar perfume or after-shave. Yousee lipstick on your husband's shirt.
32) The amount of money being deposited into your checking accountdrops off.
33) You find items of intimate apparel or other small gift-type items that you did not give your spouse.
34) Your spouse seems less comfortable around you and is "touchy"and easily moved to anger.
35) You get calls where the caller hangs up when he or she hears yourvoice.
36) He/she loses attention in the activities in the home.
37) Your intuition (gut feeling) tells you that something is not right.
38) He/she has a definite change in attitude towards everyone in thehome.
39) She uses a low voice or whisper on the phone or hangs up quickly.
40) She has a "glow" about her.
41) Atypical erratic behavior.
42) He sneaks out of the house.
43) She sleeps with her purse by the bed
44) She goes to the store for groceries and comes home 5 hours later.
45) He tells you can get hold of him at a different telephone number.
46) He or She comes straight home and takes an immediate shower.
The telltale signs of a cheating spouse? Having to ask that questionin the first place.

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