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Fraudulent email? HMRC or not?

Jul 6th, 2009 | By invest | Category: News

HM Revenue and Customs have now produced a webpage providing details of the scams that are currenly hitting the nations  ‘inboxes’. The HMRC website provides details of the  the e-mail addresses used as well as methods and examples of the various scams. The latest example from the website and posted just last month states: Approval of [...]



Raising money for charity

Jul 3rd, 2009 | By invest | Category: News

On Saturday 27th June 2009 four members of WM Investigation Ltd and their sister company Licence Bureau Ltd ( www.licencebureau.co.uk  ) walked and scrambled up Ben Nevis on behalf of Brake, the road safety charity ( www.brake.org.uk ). The walk took a total of seven hours 20 minutes and started in bright sunshine.  Upon reaching [...]



Repossession – A Dirty Job.

Jun 15th, 2009 | By invest | Category: News

Having been instructed to locate a new Ford Focus, we established the hirer had been a licensee.   A successful trace was undertaken and a new address identified for both the hirer and the vehicle for recovery.   Recovery was completed after discussions with the hirer however to our surprise the car was being used as [...]



Daily Mail Crime Story – Our help provides Success

Jun 15th, 2009 | By invest | Category: News

Since our inception in 1989 we have worked with individuals, companies and organisations to provide evidence of wrong doing to Police in a manner that will ensure an investigation is undertaken and prevent the allegation being swept under the carpet.  Every week we notify Police of vehicles obtained by deception for the major finance houses [...]



Lucky Escape or Attempted Murder?

Jun 11th, 2009 | By invest | Category: News

Repossessing cars is a tricky business and a career not to be taken lightly.   One of our first repossessions in 1989 ended with the driver reported to  Police for dangerous driving and the vehicle impaled on the top of railings having tried to evade the recovery. The driver had made off across a grass [...]



International Quality Standard Achieved – ISO 9001

Apr 3rd, 2009 | By invest | Category: News

WM Investigation Ltd are pleased to announce they have achieved ISO9001 accreditation. The standard which is audited externally on an annual basis provides our customers with an internationally recognised accreditation for Quality Assurance. The standard has a number of auditable measures including process and quality of service to all our customers. The next step is [...]



Investigation avoids Adoption

Mar 25th, 2009 | By invest | Category: News

All we seem to hear these days are stories of debt and deception and our industry is perceived as a necessary evil in those matters which cause pain and suffering whether to individuals or businesses. So it is with great pleasure we provide the following case where our actions have provided a positive and extremely happy outcome [...]



Assistance provided to BBC ‘Inside Out Programme’

Feb 19th, 2009 | By invest | Category: News

‘Inside Out’ the BBC1 current affairs programme highlighted London landlords whose lives are being made a misery by problem tenants. The problem was highlighted to the BBC by our customer ‘Landlord Action’ who on behalf of two landlords had evicted a problem tenant in 2004 and was now faced with evicting them again. Our task was to ascertain where they had [...]



Mike Penning MP visits WM Investigation Ltd (15.01.2009)

Feb 9th, 2009 | By invest | Category: News

Mr. Penning is the joint secretary of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Identity Fraud and during his visit to WM Investigation and our sister company Licence Bureau Ltd he was able to discuss our service offering and topical issues.   In particular, the security of data and the ease in which forged documents are [...]



Long term sick?

Feb 3rd, 2009 | By invest | Category: News

WM Investigation has just concluded a surveillance for a National Company on a employee claiming sickness through stress. Although off sick for some considerable time our team were able to provide the client with photographs of their emplolyee at work and cash changing hands for the work undertaken. We have a large number of business clients [...]