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In this video, I just want to tell you that when you're asked to do an investigation, ask what information

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the client already has.

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Now, this might seem like a silly thing to do, but I've been asked to do different Osint investigations,

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and I spent a lot of time coming up with information, digging through stuff, finding different links,

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and finding different information, only to find out the client already knew some of this.

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And if the client told me that, they knew that, hey, you know, we know about this social media account.

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We know about this email address or this phone number.

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That could have saved a lot of time, and I potentially could have found a lot more information in the

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time frame they gave me instead of going through and figuring out, well, okay, this links to this,

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this links to that, that goes to here and so on and so forth.

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So as what information your client already has before you start your investigation as to what they're

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willing to share with you.

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Having the information that you already have can save you a lot of time and save a lot of redundancy,

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especially when you start preventing, uh, presenting information to your client.

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So when you come up and go, eh, I found this, this and this and this related to the investigation,

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your client won't go.

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Oh, we already knew that.

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You know, your.

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And it just respects everyone's time.

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So it's okay to ask before you start your investigation.

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I just want to get that out.

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And again, it might seem kind of silly, but there are situations where the client, whatever reason,

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doesn't think to give you the information they already have before you start your investigation.

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So thanks for watching.

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I'll see you in the next video.