Here are examples of verification and investigation services you can offer on the Inspectionally to help people and businesses.
You can also come up with your own ideas on useful services you can offer.
VERIFICATIONS
Utilize Web Sleuthing and Fact Checking Skills for Good
Cybercriminals and offline con artists often target the most vulnerable people with scams and fraud. If you possess web sleuthing skills, you can use them for a noble cause by offering freelance services on Inspectionally. Your job would entail conducting in-depth research, verifying the authenticity of offers sent to people, and preventing others from falling prey to scams.
You can also get hired to research offers received by individuals and check for red flags that indicate potential fraud.
Here’s a list of scams from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Consumer Alerts:
FTC Consumer Alerts on Scam Types
Here’s an example of FTC press release showing consumer scams and losses:
FTC Received 2.8 Million Fraud Reports from Consumers in 2021
Offer Due Diligence Screening Services
As a freelancer, you can offer due diligence screening services to businesses to screen candidates for employment or other requests. Use your experience and tools to perform background verifications, reference checks, and other necessary tasks.
Provide Legal Due Diligence Services
If you specialize in due diligence investigations as a lawyer or paralegal, you can offer a legal due diligence service. Your role would entail researching, investigating, identifying, verifying, and preparing information required by lawyers and law offices.
Offer Financial Due Diligence Services
If you have experience conducting financial due diligence to evaluate the financial health of businesses, you can provide buy-side and sell-side due diligence services depending on the client's requirements.
Provide Commercial Due Diligence Services
Offer a commercial due diligence service that identifies red flags for buyers. Your report will be crucial for big decisions, such as buying or investing in a business.
Offer Intellectual Property Due Diligence Services
As an intellectual property guru, you can help parties avoid infringement problems. Your intellectual property due diligence service would involve examining and analyzing IP portfolios for those selling, purchasing, or licensing intellectual property rights.
Provide Compliance/Regulatory Due Diligence Services
Compliance or regulatory due diligence involves systematically reviewing the regulatory compliance status of an organization, its suppliers, partners, and agents to ensure compliance with standards and policies.
Offer Freelance Compliance Verification Services
As a compliance verification expert, you can offer freelance services to verify that businesses, organizations, and governments comply with regulations. Your job would entail verifying that they and their branches and practices comply with regulations.
Offer Process Verification and Validation Services
If you have strong experience in process verification and validation, you can offer your services as a freelance process verification analyst. You can help businesses verify that their products or services meet requirements and fulfill their intended purposes.
Provide Other Verification Services
Offer any other type of verification service that could be useful to individuals or organizations.
INVESTIGATIONS
Fraud Prevention and Investigation
In the United States, fraud reports received by the Federal Trade Commission exceeded 2.8 million in 2021, with reported losses exceeding $5.8 billion. Vulnerable individuals are often the targets of scams through emails, texts, and phone calls. If you possess expertise in web sleuthing and research, your services on Inspectionally could help protect the vulnerable from being victimized.
Resources:
Freelance Corporate Investigator
With your investigative skills, you can assist companies in resolving issues such as harassment complaints, illegal activities, fraud, pre-employment screenings, cybercrime, and copyright infringement.
Freelance Legal Investigator
As a legal investigator, you can use your investigative skills or knowledge of legal practice to assist attorneys in their preparation for litigation and other areas of legal practice. This includes assembling facts in a logical manner and conducting investigations.
Private Investigator
Private detectives and investigators help uncover information related to fraud, legal, financial, or other matters.
Researcher and Fact-Finder
Skilled researchers, internet sleuths, cyber sleuths, and professionals in specialized fields can utilize their skills to conduct research and gather useful information for businesses and individuals.
Business Fraud Investigation
Business fraud investigators help businesses uncover fraudulent transactions or practices, whether they occur internally through employee actions or externally through contract violations, purchases, procurement, sales, and other transactions.
Survey Researcher
Survey researchers are hired to conduct surveys and focus groups to help businesses understand their customers better.
Computer Forensics Researcher
Computer forensic investigators can help businesses identify threats such as hacking, intrusion, and data stealing. They have the skills to find, recover, collect, and analyze data from computers.
Freelance Insurance Investigator
Insurance companies and lawyers need investigation services to identify fraudulent claims arising from property damage, injuries, and other claims. As a freelance insurance investigator, you can provide these services to protect clients.
Other Investigation Services
You can offer other types of investigation services that are useful to individuals or organizations.
EVERYTHING ELSE
Your skills. Your creativity.
Everything Else
Put your creativity and experience to work. Offer any useful service that people and businesses may need.
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