The Little Black Book of Skip Tracing: Create Pretext, Master Social Engineering, and Find Anyone Anywhere

Frank M. Ahearn is a leading privacy expert and author of The New York Times Best Selling Book, How to Disappear: Erase Your Digital Footprint, Leave False Trails, And Vanish Without A Trace, as well as The Digital Hit Man and How to Disappear From Big Brother.

Frank took a short hiatus from the disappearing world and decided to go undercover and open a skip tracing company using a pseudonym. In his fake company he offered skip tracing, reverse listing and other related information and finding services to Private Investigators, Lawyers, Bounty Hunters and Repo-Services world-wide.

Originally, The Black Book of Skip Tracing was to be a short book of his undercover experience but evolved into a tell all book about how to create pretext, master social engineering, extract private information and locate anyone anywhere.

It should be noted that most of the tactics in this book are illegal and should not be performed.

Excerpt: “I was never worried about pretexting and getting caught. I took numerous precautions so I could not be traced. My fear always stemmed with my clients. I had no way of knowing if my clients, client was the FTC or a law enforcement agency. The feds would randomly pose as clients to private investigators and request illegal information. Some PI’s would turn the work away but others would take on the work. That work usually ended up on the desk of someone like me who did the social engineering.”

Excerpt: "One time I called the phone company to obtain a copy of a subjects phone records. However, the cell phone was disconnected for nonpayment and each time I put the phone number in a prompt system it transferred my to Accounts Receivables. No one would discuss anything but the outstanding balance of forty two bucks.

I went the store and I purchased a prepaid gift card for forty two bucks. I called the phone company back and I paid off the balance owed on the account. Then I told the Rep in order for me to get reimbursed I need to go over the call. In ten minutes time I had every call made in the past three months."

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