Sometimes they outsmart themselves

This case involves fraud. A client was referred to Morrow Detective Agency by an attorney client of ours.  This client placed a down payment to purchase a mobile home from a private party. The private party advised that she would give our client the deed to the property the following week when my client would be able to come up with the rest of the money. The following week my client comes back to the residence to find a for sale sign out in front of the property. My client also finds out that the person had moved out and left no further contact information. We are employed a couple months later by the client to locate the woman so that a service of process can be done on her. We run a search through our databases and come up with nothing new. We contact old neighbors and come up with minimal information. The woman's social networking indicates that she works for the county. A further inquiry finds that she is no longer employed at a certain county facility. We go to the post office and learn that there is no forwarding address information on file. In the meantime my client is attempting to call the woman but is either taunted or ignored. We decide to attempt a pretext but the woman is unresponsive. After many attempts we decide to attempt a phone trap. The woman responds but from a different phone..after hearing the message she hangs up. Fortunately the phone trap documented the phone information. A reverse look up was done on the phone number and it lead to a different county facility. We also learn from one the neighbors who we had spoken with earlier that the woman may have recently purchased a home in a different city. The city that she may have purchased a home in happens to share the same area code as the new place of employment. So now what we have this information it is time to put it to use.  We try to serve her at her residence but have no success, our next hope is her place of employment and we are successful on that attempt. Later on we get a phone call from the same number that called our phone trap. The female subject is furious and states that we have no right to serve papers on her at her job, and she feels that we had harassed her by doing so. After hearing the subject out we advised the woman that we had to serve her the best way we could, we also sneak in the opinion that had she called back our client in the first place, she would have never been tracked down in order to be served. 

This is a case where the subject played it to smart. If the woman had called us from her cell phone instead of her work line we probably would not have been able to get to her in time. But since she had to be sneaky and call us from her work line, we she in turn gave us the lead we needed to close the case. 

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