Social Media Investigations

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Did you know that social media posts, status updates, photos, venue check-ins and conversations are increasingly being used as evidence in court cases?

With over 57% of the world’s population using some form of social media – and one out of every three people uploading daily photographs and information about themselves, their friends, where they are, and what they are up to onto social media platforms – it’s not surprising that many of us have become social media over-sharers.

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Online Scams Have Become Almost Commonplace in a World That Increasingly Relies on Online Shopping & Ecommerce.

Online scams usually involve scammers who pretend to be genuine online retailers or sellers, and disappear once they’ve received payment for advertised goods or services – but they can also seek to steal personal information by presenting themselves as government departments, or even your own workplace.


While some online scams are pretty obvious, others can be extremely sophisticated and complex, using the latest technology to set up fake websites or social media accounts, and using realistic domain names, logos and Australian Business Numbers to look as authentic as possible.

It might be a happy snap of a girl’s night out at a local restaurant, a homemade Book Week costume for the seven-year-old’s Book Week Parade, or tagging work colleagues in a funny meme that is a bit of an inside joke…


But whatever the subject might be, social media posts are essentially just a whole heap of trackable information that an individual collates and presents to the public (if the person has not changed their profile settings to ‘private,’) or is accessible to investigators using digital forensic tools and techniques.


By gathering and analysing data found on social media platforms, online investigators can create a clear picture of someone’s actions, relationships, and habits, and help establish a person’s character, support an alibi, and provide other valuable information relevant to court cases.

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At Cyberlutions, our social media team can help you to collect a wide range of information available through social media, including:

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Personal information – such as current acquaintances, family members, new connections, etc.

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Location-based information – including home/work addresses, a daily commute schedule, important locations, or past/future travels etc.

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Online ‘presence’ information – such as the types of websites an individual might frequent, and the apps and social media platforms they use.

Using information gathered from social media platforms, our team can analyse the data to figure out:

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How an individual might be connected to others in their network

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If/how someone is connected to known criminals

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The types of activities an individual may engage in (e.g., drug use, extramarital affairs, working with a competitor, insurance scams etc.)

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The location of an individual at a particular time or date, and/or when another incident was taking place.

At Cyberlutions® our expert social media investigators can legally and appropriately gather the online information you need, and preserve the evidence we find so that it is legally admissible in court.


We don’t want you to take unnecessary risks, or do something you might come to regret later, so let our team undertake a professionally run social media investigation using appropriate and approved forensic processes and techniques.


Our social media investigators use a variety of reverse search and investigative methods to locate accounts quickly and accurately, and can often retrieve relevant photos, posts, and data that can’t be otherwise accessed.


Cyberlutions® experts undertake investigative work quietly and efficiently in the background, so we can gather the data you need without anyone knowing they are being monitored until the investigation is complete, and you present your evidence.

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