This week’s guest is Emmanuelle Welch (@frenchpi)
Emmanuelle Welch is a Licensed Private Investigator, Certified Fraud Examiner, and owner of French Connection Research, a private investigative agency in Brooklyn, NY, licensed in New York and Washington, DC. She specializes in white-collar crime investigations, cross-Atlantic litigation support and OSINT analysis. She integrates dating and hook-up apps into all types of investigations and maintains a directory: https://start.me/p/VRxaj5/dating-apps-and-hook-up-sites-for-investigators. Emmanuelle is a co-author of The Art Of Investigations. She currently serves as the vice-president of New York’s Society for Professional Investigators (SPI).
People in this Episode
- Nico Dekens (@DutchOSINTGuy)
- Matthias Wilson (@mwOsint)
- Lorand Bodo (@LorandBodo)
- Nixintel (@nixintel)
- Kirby Plessas (@kirbstr)
- John (@gumshoo)
- Rae Baker (@wondersmith_rae)
Links to what we discussed
- Emmanuelle’s OSINT tools/resources start.me page for dating apps: https://start.me/p/VRxaj5/dating-apps-and-hook-up-sites-for-investigators
- Thank you to our new sponsor Aware Online: https://www.aware-online.com/en/
- Introduction to researching foreign influence in the US: https://osintcurio.us/2020/09/14/introduction-to-researching-foreign-influence-in-the-us/
- NEW Twitter Analysis framework by @sowdust: https://github.com/sowdust/tafferugli
- OSINT Intelligence Cycle by @sinwindie: https://www.secjuice.com/the-osint-intelligence-cycle-part-i-planning-and-direction/
- Maltego Transform for Telegram: https://twitter.com/noneprivacy/status/1304357985297346560?s=21
- Using R to find stories in financial publicly available data: https://medium.com/@itoufexi/how-i-used-the-companies-house-streaming-api-to-find-a-newsworthy-story-a96d787955b2
- How hackers can find sensitive information in your photos: https://medium.com/digital-marketing-lab/subtle-information-hackers-find-in-the-background-of-your-social-media-photos-938ec1876246
- Interesting and detailed case study about what can be found with someone’s passport number: https://mango.pdf.zone/finding-former-australian-prime-minister-tony-abbotts-passport-number-on-instagram
- Google Account Finder: https://tools.epieos.com/google-account.php
- Best investigative podcasts: https://gijn.org/2020/09/09/a-global-tour-of-top-investigative-podcasts-the-2020-edition/
- Call for proposals for ConINT (@conint)_io: https://twitter.com/CONINT_io/status/1306676769718706181
- Database of industrial designs data: https://twitter.com/navlys_/status/1306333649877504000
- How to use industrial designs data for OSINT: https://keyfindings.blog/2020/05/03/using-the-wipo-ip-portal-for-osint/
Self Promotion
- Nixintel will be publishing a series of 10-Minute Tips on our OSINTCurious YouTube account
- Go check out Kirby’s webinar series on kirbyplessas.net
- Gumshoo has some SANS classes coming up
- The Society of Professional Investigators has a free webinar where they introduce the investigative toolbox on THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2020 at 6PM. More info here: https://spionline.info/meetinginfo.php?id=41&ts=1600364186