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COST: $75

Social Media Infiltration and Exploitation

This course is designed to provide law enforcement personnel with the knowledge and skills to use undercover social media accounts to enhance their investigative techniques. Social media has become a key tool for criminals to communicate and coordinate illegal activities, making it a critical source of evidence for law enforcement. By creating and utilizing undercover social media accounts, investigators can gather valuable intelligence, monitor criminal activities, and even identify potential suspects.

In this course, students will learn how to approach and interact with suspects, informants, illegal marketplaces and criminal groups by using undercover social media accounts, as well as how to safely and effectively navigate various social media platforms. Students will be exposed to Social Engineering tactics and techniques to make direct contact with their suspects and generate both witting and unwitting informants.  Students will learn social network infiltration techniques and how to overcome common strategies used by criminals to identify undercover Law Enforcement accounts.  Students will learn to identify and exploit unconventional sources of intelligence to be used in their cases.  Proven strategies will be demonstrated with real world examples.

Topics covered in this course will include:

• The legal and ethical considerations of using social media for investigations
• The types of information that can be obtained through social media accounts
• The techniques for approaching and interacting with suspects, informants, illegal marketplaces and criminal groups
• The methods for monitoring criminal activity on social media platforms
• The process for using social engineering tactics and techniques to make direct contact
• The best practices for maintaining operational security and protecting the identity of investigators
• The use of social media in conducting surveillance and tracking criminal suspects

By the end of the course, students will have a solid understanding of how to leverage social media accounts to support criminal investigations and enhance their overall effectiveness as law enforcement professionals.

INSTRUCTOR – Detective Endzel is currently assigned to the Criminal Investigative Division at a large department in New Mexico tasked with the location, investigation, and apprehension of violent criminals.  He has successfully used social engineering techniques on social media platforms for ten years to solve and support major violent criminal cases.  He has a proven record of using alias accounts and direct undercover engagement to locate and apprehend suspects of Homicide, Armed Robbery, Burglary, Escaped Prisoners, and other violent armed fugitives.  He obtained a master’s degree in Cyber Security Operations and Leadership and has been training Law Enforcement personnel to leverage technology for their investigations since 2021.  His 18 years of Law Enforcement experience includes time on full-time tactical teams, investigation and apprehension responsibility for Local, State, and Federal offenders, and extensive physical and electronic surveillance operations.

Recent Evaluations:

 “One of the most relevant training classes I’ve had in 21 years. Found a missing juvenile this morning using some of the resources you provided.” Corona, California Student 2022

“Honestly, this is one of the best course I have taken. It is extremely practical, and you cut out a lot of the BS that LE courses tend to come with. No BS just good knowledge. I can't think of anything else that you didn't cover. This is so much good new content that I spent a lot of time on typing out notes, so I can go over the notes again.” Corona, California Student 2022

“A lot of valuable information was presented in a very short period of time.  I truly found the class beneficial and would highly recommend it to all police personnel as the trend has become that more crime is being committed with clues and evidence located on the internet and woven into social media.” Shelton, CT Student 2022