About Steven
RamBam
Steven Rambam is the founder and CEO of
Pallorium, Inc., a licensed
Investigative Agency with offices and
affiliates worldwide. Pallorium
maintains U.S. offices and affiliates in
Texas, Louisiana, California and New
York.
Since 1980, Pallorium's investigators
have successfully closed more than 8,500
cases, ranging from homicide
investigations to missing persons cases
to the investigation of various types of
sophisticated financial and insurance
frauds. Steven Rambam was one of the
first investigators to expose "prime
bank note" and "trading program" frauds,
and his investigations in conjunction
with U.S. federal law enforcement
agencies resulted in some of the first
convictions and imprisonment of P.B.N.
fraudsters.
Mr. Rambam has coordinated
investigations in more than fifty (50)
countries, and in nearly every U.S.
State and Canadian province. Steven
specializes in international and
multi-jurisdictional investigations, and
within the past few years he has
conducted investigations in Israel,
South Africa, Holland, France, England,
India, Mexico, Guatemala, Spain,
Portugal, Bulgaria, Germany, Abu Dhabi,
China, Mongolia, the Philippines,
Thailand, Laos, Jordan, Vietnam and
Brazil, among other locations.
Steven Rambam and Pallorium have
conducted or coordinated in excess of
500 foreign insurance-related
investigations, including hundreds of
"death claim" investigations. A
significant number of these cases have
resulted in confessions, arrest and
prosecution.
More than five hundred (500) newspaper
and magazine articles have reported on
Pallorium's investigations, and Steven
has been interviewed by numerous local
television broadcasts, and by national
and international news broadcasts such
as "Sixty Minutes", "48 Hours", "BBC", "CBC",
"NPR", "IBA News" (Israel), NBC's
"Dateline", "The National", "ARD Report
Mainz", "Discovery Channel", "Geraldo"
and "America's Most Wanted". Steven was
recently asked to host a weekly
investigative television show.
Steven is currently coauthoring, with
novelist Rick Dakan, a non-fiction book,
"Stealing Your Own Identity".
Pallorium's online subsidiary, PallTech
(www.palltech.us), offers access to
nearly eight hundred (800) data sources,
and to seven (7) major proprietary
databases, and provides online
investigative support services to 2,800
investigative and law enforcement
agencies. DataVerification.Net, a custom
web portal owned and operated by
PallTech, provides specialized identity
verification and underwriting solutions
to the insurance industry.
Steven is perhaps best publicly known
for his pro bono activities, which have
included the investigation of nearly 200
Nazi collaborators and war criminals in
the USA, Canada, Europe and Australia.
Steven has also coordinated efforts to
expose terrorist groups' fundraising
activities in the United States and has
conducted investigations which resulted
in the tightening of airport security in
8 U.S. cities.
Steven Rambam has lectured on topics
ranging from "the location of missing
persons", to "the criminal use of false
identification", to "foreign
investigations", to "war crimes and the
pursuit of war criminals".
Steven is a member of IIN, WAD, WIN,
NAIS, ION, AIIP, NCISS, BOMP, COIN, IJI,
IOA, TALI, ACFE, ASIS, Intelnet, IWWA,
ALDONYS and other investigative
associations.
The court date is set! The 3rd Annual
Indulge Conference is ready for
registration and is scheduled for April
21-22, 2008! This year, the Indulge
Conference is being held at Stetson
Law School in Tampa, FL. You
will have the opportunity to work two cases from start
to finish and gain more interactive case
experience. Follow a case all the way to trial in
a real court room setting. Increase your
medical-legal expertise by learning
hands-on and doing more cases from start
to finish. As usual, we are planning
some exciting events and speakers as
well. The scheduled speakers and events
will be announced in the near future.
Since it is the "Indulge" Conference,
attendees will get the same VIP
treatment and benefits as all the the
previous years. CEs are also available
and are approved for ALNC and CLNI
certification renewal.
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PRESENTATION
TOPICS
I - "PRIVACY IS DEAD - GET OVER
IT...AND USE IT"
This will be a wide-ranging lecture
covering databases, privacy, and
"computer-aided investigation". The
final half-hour of the talk will be a
Q&A session.
This talk will include numerous examples
of investigative online resources and
databases, and will include an in-depth
demonstration of an actual online
investigation done on a volunteer
subject. (The subject is Rick Dakan, a
noted author.)
(From CNN: "...Rambam was scheduled to
discuss how he dug up -- in just over
four hours of searching private and
public databases -- more than 500 pages
worth of data on Rick Dakan, who was
attending the conference and had agreed
to participate in the project. "All I
had given him was my e-mail and name,"
Dakan said. "He knew everywhere I'd
lived, every car I had driven, and even
someone else in Alabama who was using my
Social Security number since 1983. He
found all my friends, pictures of
friends, knew about my brother's
criminal history.")
Emphasis will be placed on discussing
the "digital footprints" that we all
leave in our daily lives, and how it is
now possible for an investigator (or
government Agent) to determine a
person's likes and dislikes, religion,
political beliefs, sexual orientation,
habits, hobbies, friends, family,
finances, health and even the person's
actual physical whereabouts, solely by
the use of online data and related
activity.
II - "INTERNATIONAL and
MULTI-JURISDICTIONAL
INVESTIGATIONS"(including
How To Break a False Identity)
I. Examples of: FALSE ID AND
FALSE IDENTITIES
II. Examples of actual use in
insurance frauds, etc.
III. Activity prior to retaining
an investigative vendor.
1. CONDUCT A COMPREHSIVE
DOMESTIC INVESTIGATION
(Information to be obtained
via domestic interviews,
field investigation and
database research, etc.)
(Detail examples ; actual
case studies.)
2. U.S. and Foreign
Identifiers (including
accidental variations)
3. Transliteration
"Problems"
4. Contacts overseas (incl.
telephone numbers,
references)
5. Domestic and Foreign
Business Activities
6. Local and Foreign
Personal "Associates" (incl.
Marital History /
Significant Personal
Relationships)
7. Education History
(essential)
8. Military History
(essential)
IV. Practicing Safe
Subcontracting ( FCRA, GLB, DPPA,
DPPA-2, etc.)
V. FOREIGN INVESTIGATIVE
ACTIVITY
1. Emphasis on past
investigation; actual case
studies
2. Specially designed video
presentation with documents,
cases, confessions
VI. Hiring Local Investigators
v. "Send Your Own"
1.CARE AND FEEDING OF
INVESTIGATION VENDORS
2.RUNNING INTERFERENCE SO
YOUR INVESTIGATOR CAN CLOSE
THE FILE (attorneys, bad
faith)
VII. PERSONAL and BUSINESS
CONCERNS (in likely order of
importance):
1. Danger
2. Local customs and your
ability to do the work.
3. Cost vs. Time
VIII. IF YOU DO HIRE AN
"INVESTIGATOR":
1. Licensing (AND is there
any local licensing /
screening; India
"shopkeeper's permit"
example")
2. Verification of SPECIFIC
investigative experience
3. Setting specific goals
BEFORE a foreign
investigation, incl.
specific interviews,
investigative targets,
documents
4. "We have a tight budget
on this file..." omitted
activity; time constraints
vs. financial constraints
5. "Off Duty" (or really On
Duty) Local Law Enforcement
6. Formally involving local
law enforcement (pro and
con)
7. Value of knowing local
customs, environment and
language vs. testimony and
communication problems
8. New U.S. entry
regulations (can your
foreign associate enter the
US for meetings and
testimony?)
9. "Bad Lawyer Tricks"
(adjournments, etc.)
10. need for backup local
contacts (and meet with them
before commencing activity)
11. what are the "typical"
basic local documents
(i.e. ID card, health card,
driver license (incl.
types), etc.)(photos,
signature, significant data)
12. What is "public record"?
13. Local procedure for
obtaining records; ignoring
local procedure
14. Who can "certify"?
15. U.S. Embassy / Consulate
certifications
IX. Special Considerations
1. LOCAL POLITICS AND
ENVIRONMENT
Patriots"; conflicts of
interest; political
concerns; anti-American
attitudes; what if the
fraud is "sanctioned"
2. LOCAL LAWS
1. "Dash", "Kumshaw",
"Huang Yau",
"Baksheesh", "Mordida"
and "Santa ki seva karo
("serve the saints").
("Is it Bribery or is it
a 'Fee' "?)
2. OECD Anti-Bribery
Convention
3. OAS Inter-American
Convention Against
Corruption
4. EU Data Protection
Act / "Data Privacy
Directive"
5. EU (and even Canada)
Privacy Regs
6. Council of Europe Law
Convention on Corruption
7. Unforeseeable Local
Laws ("religious"
courts, prohibitions
against "private"
investigation, etc.)
X. WHAT TO DO IF YOU EXPOSE A
FRAUD AND NOBODY CARES
1. U.S. and Foreign agency
disinterest, laziness and
foolish pride
2. How U.S. law enforcement
practices assist fraudsters
(esp. jurisdictional and
"threshold" issues)
XI Local evidence gathering laws
1. Taping (overt or covert)
2. Video
3. weight of documents v.
testimony
XII. Q& A
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