Episode 43: Guest Emmanuelle Welch, Maltego for Telegram, Google Account Finder, WIPO Database, Twitter Analysis Framework

This week’s guest is Emmanuelle Welch (@frenchpi)

Emmanuelle Welch is a Licensed Private Investigator, Certified Fraud Examiner, and owner of French Connection Research, a private investigative agency in Brooklyn, NY, licensed in New York and Washington, DC. She specializes in white-collar crime investigations, cross-Atlantic litigation support and OSINT analysis.

People in this Episode

Nico Dekens (@DutchOSINTGuy)

Lorand Bodo (@LorandBodo)

Nixintel (@nixintel)

Kirby Plessas (@kirbstr)

John (@thegumshoo)

Rae Baker (@wondersmith_rae)

Links to what we discussed

Emmanuelle’s OSINT tools/resources start.me page for dating apps: https://start.me/p/VRxaj5/dating-apps-and-hook-up-sites-for-investigators

Introduction to researching foreign influence in the US: https://osintcurio.us/2020/09/14/introduction-to-researching-foreign-influence-in-the-us/

NEW Twitter Analysis framework by @sowdust: https://github.com/sowdust/tafferugli

OSINT Intelligence Cycle by @sinwindie: https://www.secjuice.com/the-osint-intelligence-cycle-part-i-planning-and-direction/

Maltego Transform for Telegram: https://twitter.com/noneprivacy/status/1304357985297346560?s=21

Using R to find stories in financial publicly available data: https://medium.com/@itoufexi/how-i-used-the-companies-house-streaming-api-to-find-a-newsworthy-story-a96d787955b2

How hackers can find sensitive information in your photos: https://medium.com/digital-marketing-lab/subtle-information-hackers-find-in-the-background-of-your-social-media-photos-938ec1876246

Interesting and detailed case study about what can be found with someone’s passport number: https://mango.pdf.zone/finding-former-australian-prime-minister-tony-abbotts-passport-number-on-instagram

Google Account Finder: https://tools.epieos.com/google-account.php

Best investigative podcasts: https://gijn.org/2020/09/09/a-global-tour-of-top-investigative-podcasts-the-2020-edition/

Call for proposals for ConINT (@conint)_io: https://twitter.com/CONINT_io/status/1306676769718706181

Database of industrial designs data: https://twitter.com/navlys_/status/1306333649877504000

How to use industrial designs data for OSINT: https://keyfindings.blog/2020/05/03/using-the-wipo-ip-portal-for-osint/