Today's fraud investigators need to have an arsenal of tools to assist them in identifying fraud and building their cases. While there are many resources available on the Internet, it would be irresponsible to assume that everything you find is true and accurate – therefore it's vital that you verify, verify, verify.

Besides verifying any information you find, it's important to capture anything as soon as you see it, so print pages or use the print screen function and create PDFs of all relevant information. If you're building a legal case, you'll need to produce the records at some point and sometimes it's difficult to get back to a page if you've traveled down a few rabbit holes.

At the recent IASIU conference, Joe Stephenson, managing director of SIU for Hagerty Insurance, spoke about investigative tools that are available for free on the Internet.

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