Sometime in the mid-eighties while working for an investigative agency, I discovered I had a unique ability to pretext and social engineer, which is lying to extract private information. Eventually, I left my job and opened a skip tracing (finding people) service. I spent my days extracting phone records, bank records, travel records, and other confidential information. The tools of social engineering made me a deadly skip tracer (finds people). Investigators, lawyers, insurance companies, tabloids, and others hired me to locate people worldwide. 

Somewhere in early 2000, I wrote an article, How to Disappear for an offshore website, and it blew up. The next thing you know, I am the Dear Abby of disappearing. People from all parts of the world began contacting me about their privacy issues and the need to vanish. Not long after, I wrote the book How to Disappear, which became a New York Times Bestseller.

Somewhere along my road, I found myself in the romance scam and blackmail business. The romance scam involves identifying frauds. The blackmail work is about getting the victim out of their precarious situation and creating disinformation to combat exposure and to protect their identity.

Oddly, these professions all involve the use of deception. One could say is I use the negative, to battle the negative to obtain a positive. There is no doubt that I am a master in the art of deception. If you find yourself in a bind, and unsure how to resolve, reach out to me; I can help.