These services on the internet allow you to control the internet usage of employees, spouse or children. Tools are available which can provide information about internet history, child enticement, keystroke logging, pornography, locations of hidden files, e-mail recovery, child pornography, e-mail crimes, virus removals, internet harassment, online fraud, chat history and information related to the service provider. Internet investigators play a huge role in containing cyber criminals and the coming of new age cyber laws has increased the opportunities for catching the criminals even more.

With the advancement of technology, even criminals have had their share of benefits. Crime is no more limited to only physical world, but, it has started to dig deep into the virtual world of internet too. Reports of telephone accounts being hacked and building of fraud websites related to banking have flooded the newspapers these days. It is extremely difficult to distinguish the authentic one from the fake one. Consequently, a number of people have fallen prey to this fraud resulting in losses of millions of dollars.

Internet private detectives are also well versed with the latest technology of computer forensics which is a scientific methodology for legally discovering information which can be used in the court of law. Forensic services involve close examination of computers and its stored data, identification of document sources and examination of the surroundings of the machine. Well trained technicians are appointed to carry out this work. With the help of data recovery tools, even lost data can be found and investigated.