Fraud Investigations
Types Of Fraud
At Black Light Investigations, we offer a variety of fraud investigative services to businesses and individuals to help validate the accuracy of claims.
These services may include but are not limited to:
- Conducting Surveillance
- Interviewing Witnesses &/or Claimant
- Investigating &/or Locating Stolen Items
- Examining Damages
- Gathering Additional Evidence
- Researching Records
- And More
Fraud is intentionally deceiving a business or individual to obtain financial or personal gain through dishonest tactics. Most commonly, fraudsters falsify or exaggerate claims to receive money. Fraud is widespread and takes many forms, such as creating false claims, committing intentional damage or staged events, exaggerated injuries, etc.
For Example:
- Vehicle & Property Insurance Fraud
- Exaggerating damage claims
- Staging a car crash or home fire
- Falsifying property damage
- Intentionally damaging a vehicle
- Faking a home burglary or auto theft
- Personal Injury Fraud
- Exaggerating or Falsifying personal injury claims
- Collecting worker’s comp. when the injury occurred elsewhere
- Collecting worker’s compensation but working somewhere else
- Pretending to slip and fall at a business, falsifying injuries
- Fake or Exaggerated disability claims
- Business Fraud
- Employees claiming expenses they did not incur
- Healthcare billing for services that were not rendered
- Healthcare intentionally double billing for services
- A mechanic billing for repairs that the vehicle does not need
- “Churning” Fraud
- Corporate / White Collar Fraud
- Life or Health Insurance Fraud
- Online Fraud
- Catfishing
- Individuals requesting money for fake claims
- Online seller fraud
- And More
Insurance & Worker’s Compensation Fraud
Some of the most common types of fraud are exaggerated or falsified insurance or injury claims. These types of claims can cost businesses and insurance agencies billions of dollars a year. For Example:
- Corporate Slip & Fall Claims
- Life or Health Insurance Fraud
- Damaged Vehicle Claims
- Home Insurance Fraud
- Worker’s Compensation
Worker’s compensation fraud is particularly harmful to businesses but also to the integrity of the system as well. This type of fraud is when an employee either falsifies or exaggerates work-related injuries to obtain assistance payments while recovering. In a fraudulent case, an employee may:
- Not actually be injured at all
- Falsify claims that they were injured at work when the injury occurred elsewhere
- Exaggerate injury claims to lengthen their recovery time
- Blame pre-existing conditions on a workplace accident
These fraudulent claims can cost a business thousands to billions of dollars annually. However, Black Light Investigations can help save your company or agency by catching these fraudsters for you. We offer various services that will investigate the legitimacy and accuracy of these claims. We will conduct surveillance to monitor personal injuries, investigate property damages, interview witnesses to injury and damage claims, gather additional evidence, examine or locate stolen items, and more.
Surveillance
In many fraud cases, surveillance is an extremely useful tool and tactic to catch fraudsters in the act. Black Light Investigations can conduct various types of surveillance to better suit your needs. The plethora of information that can be obtained from surveillance may include but is not limited to:
- Video & Photographic Evidence
- Social Media Evidence
- Counter Intelligence
- Timeline of an Individual’s Activities
- Proof of Drug Use
- Location of Places Visited
- Proof of Abuse
- Fraud
- Infidelity
- Fake Injuries
- Criminal Activity
- And More
When conducted legally and ethically, evidence gathered from surveillance is admissible in court, which could potentially make or break your case.
Process Serving & Mobile Notary
Black Light Investigations also provides process serving and mobile notary services.
Many types of legal documents must be served to the defendant/opposing party before further legal processes can take place. Therefore, we understand the importance of serving all of your legal documentation within your required deadlines. We also provide signed proofs of service for your convenience and filing needs.
In many cases, it is also common to require a notary’s service to authenticate a person’s signature, administer oaths, or witness acknowledgments. Therefore, we offer a mobile notary service to meet with you at your convenience. Book an appointment with us, and we will meet with you at your residence or business.