Claudette Ward

I've been in my field for about 10 years. What led me to starting my private investigator business was basically checking off something that was on my bucket list. I really decided to pursue something I had always wanted to do, and I met somebody that was able to show me the ropes, show me the best practices, and how to be a private investigator - what that entails, who our clients are, and how we serve them. My main area of expertise that I've chosen to focus on is really around backgrounds, specifically around dating and scams. You hear a lot about people transferring their whole savings to people, so I've been focusing my attention on confirming if this person is even real. We do background checks for dating - if we can do search reviews on vacuums and everything else we buy, then we can certainly do the same for the people that we date. I've been focusing on dating, relationships, and scams for families that think their family is being scammed. It's really hard to meet people in person anymore because people don't go out as much, especially since COVID. The online thing is not bad, it's just you've got to confirm at some point - if you're starting to get serious with somebody, you've got to confirm they're real. My typical day involves doing background checks, surveillance - we decide what our caseload looks like, who we're going to spy on for the day, what we find out, and creating reports for our clients, which are attorneys and insurance companies.