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> With a team like that, Rambam says he has a near 100 percent effectiveness rate at finding people, usually within a few weeks of their death (although sometim
by Throw_Away_4382 7y ago
> With a team like that, Rambam says he has a near 100 percent effectiveness rate at finding people, usually within a few weeks of their death (although sometimes, unfortunately, it turns out that the people he’s looking for actually are dead). Even so, he says he’s never been stumped.
> “Some investigations have been pretty tedious,” he says. “Some have been time-consuming, but only because the person went to the trouble of going from one country to another multiple times. I’ve basically had to follow the trail of breadcrumbs, but it wasn’t cleverness that helped them hide. It was just that they were internationally mobile weasels to begin with. If you have resources, you can disappear for a certain amount of time. But no one can disappear forever.”
That sounds pretty bold. Could it be that he exaggerates the truth as advertisement for his service?
- RandomBacon 7y ago> although sometimes, unfortunately, it turns out that the people he’s looking for actually are dead Or those people are really that good at faking their death.
- taneq 7y agoIt does seem like a bit of an unfalsifiable claim. "We are 100% certain to catch you if you fake your death... of course we might just find out you're not faking."
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoA body would do it.
- ultrarunner 7y agoProbably. The preceding statements talk about the need for an inflated ego. But even still, the closing statement made me feel more claustrophobic that I'd like to admit.
- solveit 7y agoI'm pretty sure he's bullshitting. Even the Mossad couldn't track down every high-profile Nazi after the war, and often took years to find even the ones they did find.
- RandomBacon 7y agoBack then they didn't have the technology and networks we do today. Social media facial recognition is a game-changer for this kind of thing. You'd have to live as a hermit if you attempted to fake your death, because if you're in the background of a photo uploaded to the internet, game over.
- Throw_Away_4382 7y agoCan you actually check every photo that is up-loaded to social media? And can't you change your appearance to fool the program?
- ceejayoz 7y agoFacebook'll do it for you. Create a profile, upload a few photos of the subject, and they may start alerting you that you've been tagged in others' photos. https://www.facebook.com/help/122175507864081 https://www.facebook.com/help/122175507864081 > Here are some examples of how Facebook may use face recognition: > Let you know when you might appear in photos or videos but haven't been tagged.
- lozenge 7y agoThe false positives on that would be insane, they must only check friends (maybe also friends of tagged users)
- ceejayoz 7y agoI've had it come up from friends-of-friends, at least. A good investigator is likely gonna find that a few friends-of-friends of the "deceased" play Mafia Wars and accept every friend request.
- mhb 7y agoWell, it's a little hard to make the math on this other claim work out: Steven Rambam, a blunt-talking, New York P.I. who’s helped locate tens of thousands of missing and dubiously dead people over the course of his 40-year career 20,000/(40 * 365) = 1.3 found per day for 40 years. Maybe there are large groups faking their deaths at the same time?
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- mindfulplay 7y ago"helped" -> could it mean that he oversaw a group or a team that found these people? Or as a consultant perhaps...
- rhacker 7y agoI'm not totally sure who fucked up that, but his website says this: > Since 1981, our investigators have conducted more than one thousand (1,000) missing person investigations, with a better than 90% successful closure rate. http://pallorium.com/News.html http://pallorium.com/News.html