Demonstration of an OSINT investigative walkthrough!

Investigative Walkthrough: Using OSINT to Unravel a Fraud Suspect

Follow alongside Griffin's tenacious methodology, connecting digital clues with a fraudster's real life identity, and demonstrating many of the skills you've learned in our online courseware. (74 minutes)

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Why you need this course

Please read before enrolling!

This fast-paced course is intended to demonstrate how to methodically apply the tools, techniques, and resources covered in our other OSINT courses. It is highly recommended that participants first complete these basic skill building courses recommended below, before enrolling in this course. If you have taken these prior courses, or already possess the investigative skills, then please read on!

Follow's Griffin's tenacious investigative methodology in researching a potential financial fraud scammer, putting together many elements covered in our skill-building trainings such as researching usernames, email addresses, phone numbers, social media accounts, business records, and more.

It's not your typical training course, as it does not focus so much on skill building, rather it takes you on an exciting journey through unraveling the world of an online fraudster and connecting their online persona to their real life identity.

❗ Many different tools, techniques, and resources are referenced in this course but are not "taught". Please do not take this course to learn the individual skills. If you are interested in learning the skills required to perform this type of investigation, please complete the suggested prerequisite courses below.

Key learning objectives:

How to begin working your way out from a single data point, to identify a larger online presence
How to leverage various OSINT techniques to uncover additional data related to a subject
How to build a connection from an online persona to a real-life identity

At the end of the course, you will know:

What it looks like to approach person-focused research
How various skill-based OSINT techniques such as searching with names, usernames, emails, business records and more can be tied together
How to begin applying the methodologies you've learned in other courseware in a single, concentrated investigation

Recommended Prerequisite Courses:

Operational Security & Privacy: https://www.myosint.training/courses/opsec-and-privacy
Using Search Engines Effectively: https://www.myosint.training/courses/search-engines
People Searching: https://www.myosint.training/courses/people-searching
Physical Address and Phone Number Searches: https://www.myosint.training/courses/address-and-phone
Email Searching: https://www.myosint.training/courses/email
Username Searching: https://www.myosint.training/courses/username-searching
Introduction to Social Media: https://www.myosint.training/courses/social-media-intro
Image Analysis for OSINT: https://www.myosint.training/courses/image-analysis1
Reverse Image Searching: https://www.myosint.training/courses/reverse-image-searching

Frequently Asked Questions

Earn 1 CPE/CEUs for completing this course.
This course is 70 minutes long.
Griffin Glynn authored and teaches the course.
This course consists of online videos accessible from mobile app and/or web browser.
This course is included in the All OSINT Course bundles and the OSINT Immersion bundle.
A course completion certificate is automatically provided to students finishing this course.
To successfully complete this course, you need only to have access to the internet.