WEBVTT 00:00.750 --> 00:06.060 As you perform your own investigations, it's pretty easy to get overwhelmed. 00:06.060 --> 00:12.480 And as we talked in the mental preparation stage, you do need to kind of prep yourself for this. 00:13.020 --> 00:17.650 But chances are you can easily get overwhelmed. 00:17.670 --> 00:19.890 There's a lot of information coming through. 00:20.790 --> 00:25.430 You may be doing this for this investigation, may going on, going on for a while. 00:25.440 --> 00:27.240 You may have time constraints. 00:27.270 --> 00:29.400 People's lives may be at stake. 00:29.970 --> 00:34.500 Potential someone is either hurt or may be hurt. 00:34.620 --> 00:37.950 Trafficking, missing persons, whatnot. 00:38.460 --> 00:41.640 It's a lot of pressure and a lot of information that we'll be dealing with. 00:42.760 --> 00:50.890 So one thing that I found is very useful to kind of get all the information, kind of keep it, keep 00:50.890 --> 00:51.400 things straight. 00:51.400 --> 00:56.440 Because like I said, when we're dealing with a lot of information, we can get kind of overwhelmed 00:56.440 --> 01:00.550 with not only the amount of information we have, but well, what was that website? 01:00.550 --> 01:02.140 It was at what date was that? 01:02.140 --> 01:03.880 That date may be important. 01:03.880 --> 01:06.070 What file links to what? 01:06.610 --> 01:10.210 Having a simple Excel spreadsheet can come in handy. 01:10.240 --> 01:11.830 Now this is just an example. 01:13.030 --> 01:18.880 This one to build an excel you could use OpenOffice, LibreOffice, Google Docs, whatever you want. 01:19.480 --> 01:26.080 Essentially it looks like this and this is from a actual OSS investigation I've been doing for about 01:26.080 --> 01:34.180 a year and it's a redacted and important information and this is just a template that I'm using that 01:34.180 --> 01:37.090 I find is easy and is very generalized. 01:37.360 --> 01:38.260 So we have a date. 01:38.260 --> 01:42.350 So the date that the information is found or logged. 01:42.370 --> 01:48.130 The time, if that's important, the evidence type a link. 01:48.130 --> 01:54.100 So if it goes to a website, I have a link section here where the files are in the name of the file 01:54.100 --> 01:55.230 and type of file. 01:55.240 --> 01:58.780 So we see some PDFs here, some JPEG files here. 01:59.920 --> 02:04.860 How reliable that information I just found is notes on the reliability score. 02:04.870 --> 02:07.810 So a highly reliable it's vetted information. 02:07.810 --> 02:10.930 I'm positive the information is good. 02:11.350 --> 02:16.120 B is highly reliable, but it it still needs to be vetted. 02:16.120 --> 02:19.840 You know, it's not 100% it's say 90, 95%. 02:20.500 --> 02:22.570 C Unsure reliability. 02:22.600 --> 02:24.380 D Low reliability. 02:24.410 --> 02:26.980 F Pure rumor, junk post. 02:27.490 --> 02:30.940 And again, this is just a chart that I'm personally using. 02:31.630 --> 02:35.710 And then we have notes, so notations on this particular information. 02:36.070 --> 02:41.520 So in this case here called wrong number, likely old. 02:41.530 --> 02:44.410 So the information went from pretty reliable. 02:44.410 --> 02:52.690 So the information I had here was a phone number for the individual's mother, apparently. 02:53.170 --> 02:58.900 So I went from B to F once I vetted that information and that's why I put the notes here called and 02:58.930 --> 03:01.420 it was wrong numbers, likely old numbers. 03:01.420 --> 03:02.830 So this was from a. 03:03.920 --> 03:10.370 People database and most likely had the phone number of a number attached to this person. 03:11.000 --> 03:15.710 So again, this is just really simple, really easy to kind of put together. 03:16.190 --> 03:24.290 I have evidence types here, so Facebook page, better business reviews, phone numbers, personal information 03:24.290 --> 03:25.300 of whatnot. 03:25.310 --> 03:28.070 And over here I have some links here. 03:28.070 --> 03:37.130 So this verified phone number would and I would have the link to that verified phone number along with 03:37.130 --> 03:38.450 the reliability score. 03:38.450 --> 03:43.730 And finally the notes of what I call that when I verify that number and whatnot. 03:44.210 --> 03:46.100 So again, this is really simple. 03:46.100 --> 03:48.320 There's not much to it. 03:50.130 --> 03:51.040 Sorry about that. 03:51.060 --> 03:52.560 There's not much to this. 03:53.100 --> 03:57.810 It's again, just something to kind of keep your thoughts straight and also to. 03:59.170 --> 04:03.070 Help you tie certain information together, kind of keep your thoughts in order. 04:03.070 --> 04:07.840 And especially if you come back to it later, you kind of understand where you went from. 04:07.840 --> 04:15.970 And when you hand over this information to someone, they can kind of follow the the process of how 04:15.970 --> 04:17.560 you went through these steps. 04:18.070 --> 04:19.420 So, again, really simple. 04:19.420 --> 04:25.630 Just go ahead and pull up a a spreadsheet in Google Docs office. 04:26.620 --> 04:30.730 LibreOffice OpenOffice what not very easy. 04:30.730 --> 04:36.610 And trust me, this is this really comes in handy and will save you a lot of sanity. 04:36.610 --> 04:37.900 So I hope this helps. 04:38.080 --> 04:38.950 Thanks for watching.