Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Husbands (and sometimes wives) place bugs or GPS trackers

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Half the cases I do are because of divorce. The other half are businesses. Divorce cases are called “domestic” cases. GPS tracker (abou...
Friday, March 02, 2012

Eavesdropping equipment: How to keep your home or office free from them.

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So often when I do sweeps at a home or business people ask me, “How can I prevent eavesdropping in the future?” Let me share a few tip...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Listening device found in car

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Sherlock Investigations  got a call on a Sunday from a client in Staten Island who thought her cellphone might be  bugged . I asked if i...
Wednesday, February 15, 2012

How to find bugging devices.

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I looked on the Internet for “how to find bugging devices in your house of car.” What I found was misleading. The article said, “Listen ...
Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Is the cost of a bug sweep worth it?

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Electronic eavesdropping sweeps  can be expensive. (The Technical Division of Sherlock Investigations is in the mid-ra...
Friday, February 10, 2012

GPS trackers and cell phones as bugs

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I’m getting more calls about GPS trackers than anything else. I sweep at least one car a week. Last year I swept only one car a month. ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012

GPS trackers

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Hundreds of thousands of GPS trackers are sold each year in the United States. Applications for this live GPS tracking device range from cov...
Wednesday, December 28, 2011

TRUE!

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A hidden GPS unit can usually be located with a visual inspection. If you have a baby monitor you might be letting people inadvertentl...
Tuesday, December 27, 2011

FALSE!

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You can call a certain phone number to see your phone is tapped. Even if the wiretap is in the central office of the phone company it ...
Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Sherlock interviewed by HomeSecuritySystems.net

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Check out this interview we did with our friends at HomeSecuritySystems.net. We talk about why people are bugged and why bugs go undetected...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Hidden video cameras

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I swept an apartment the other day in Manhattan. The woman thought there were video cameras watching her every move. I really didn't w...
Thursday, August 11, 2011

Bug Sweeps on You Tube

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nH2xqFKsS4
Monday, April 18, 2011

Bug sweep of a car in Connecticut

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The other day I was called to a rush job on a car in Greenwich, Connecticut. After checking carefully under the dashboard, air vents for h...
Friday, March 18, 2011

Bug sweeps: Redesigning our web site to reflect the same

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At Sherlock Investigations we're called to detect wiretaps and "bugs" more than any other investigation. So, we're redesig...
Tuesday, November 02, 2010

Eavesdropping Detection

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A physical search is extremely important in finding eavesdropping equipment. A "bug" may be turned off, the battery dead, or a rec...
Saturday, August 21, 2010

Car Bugged?

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Your car may be bugged, or have a GPS device attached, and you don't even know it. Typically, bugs in cars are transmitted by a cleverly...
Monday, August 09, 2010

Bed bugs? Check out your exterminator!

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We got a call from a guy who’s now living in Motel 6. At first he had bed bugs and now he’s homeless. As a solution to his bed bug probl...
Thursday, July 22, 2010

Spies Online - Newsweek interviews Porteous

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PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS The advent of the Internet transformed the private-eye industry, shifting its focus from background checks (which can ...
Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Bug Detectors and Bug Detection

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A few years ago I was looking for a storefront in Manhattan's Upper West Side to open a spy store. One of the things I wanted to sell we...
Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Gay-friendly private investigators

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Sherlock Investigations proudly serves the gay and lesbian community in New York City and elsewhere. We’ve always employed gay or lesbian in...
Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Bug sweeps in NY, CT, NJ and beyond

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Recently I flew to Jamaica West Indies to perform a bug sweep for a well-known celebrity. He rented a villa there and was concerned about pa...
Thursday, May 13, 2010

De-bugging a conference room

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A well-known NYC corporation contacted Sherlock Investigations to conduct a security check on their conference room because they were conce...
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Friday, May 07, 2010

Wiretaps at the central office can't be detected

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Businesses that have their offices swept for eavesdropping devices should be aware that wiretaps from the phone company's central offic...
Monday, May 03, 2010

Is the cost of an electronic sweep worth it?

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Electronic eavesdropping sweeps can be expensive. (The Technical Division of Sherlock Investigations is in the mid-range category.) The mor...
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Friday, April 30, 2010

Sweeping a car for eavesdropping devices...without any special equipment

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Sherlock Investigations is often called to sweep vehicles. Eavesdropping devices placed in vehicles are often dormant. A hidden cell phone i...
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

What do bugging devices look like?

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Sherlock Investigations often gets visits to our site from people who Google “what do bugging devices look like?” There is no easy answer to...
Monday, April 26, 2010

Finding legal wiretaps

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Sherlock Investigations received a call from a business owner telling us that his ex-partner had formed a rival company. We received a call...
Wednesday, April 14, 2010

'Physical' Search For Wiretaps and Bugs is Necessary

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In wiretap detection we physically feel all the wires leading to the phones, because a wiretap is often very small. Some professionals tap ...
Sunday, April 11, 2010

This blog has moved

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This blog is now located at http://blog.sherlockinvestigations.com/. You will be automatically redirected in 30 seconds, or yo...
Saturday, April 10, 2010

Spies among us?

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Corporate espionage is big business. Corporations have billions of dollars invested in new products, models, and research. Obviously the...