Taking Cover: Creating A Research Social Media Account featuring Ritu Gill

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One of the most common questions Ritu receives is, "How do I make a covert (sock puppet) account?" This is usually followed by, "Why is Facebook rejecting my sock puppet?"
It's true, these days it can be extremely difficult to create an effective covert investigation account. Many social media sites use advanced techniques to check the authenticity of profile pictures, phone numbers, email addresses, and your Internet Protocol address.
Investigating online means creating social media accounts. It is important that you create accounts that are anonymous and do not readily identify you. Why is this necessary? As investigators, we need to create these online personas in order to:

Protect our identity,
Protect our families,
Protect our file(s),
Protect our organization,
Our subjects know we go online to investigate them,
Defense lawyers warn their clients that we monitor their online activity,
People are now moving to more privatized sites and forums where you need to be invited to join.

This is NOT an online undercover course.
In this course you will learn:

How to create an effective online covert account,
How to defeat social media account checkers,
The issues surrounding covert accounts,
How to join online groups,
The benefits of "burner" phones.

$49.99 USD