Digital Forensic Report

Forensic Lab Report

Investigator’s Name:

Date of Investigation:

Lab Number and Title: Week 5 – ilab - Bid Rigging

Step 1:

The first step in this investigation will be the assessment of all digital evidence thoroughly to determine the course of action to take. Some of the terms that I would probably search for would include:

Bid, Fraud, agree, agreement, money, profit, stipulation, account, turn, contract and company names where bids were submitted, and company names of competitors, and dates of the bids. It is also impossible to create a complete keyword list, because we would need to know who these companies’ competitors are.

In order for a bid rigging scheme to succeed there has to be more than one person involved, as such one would expect cross company communication to be occurring that should not be, which means those company names could be valuable in preventing something from being over looked. However, this does not exclude the ability to expand the keywords to search as information is discovered during the investigation.

The accusation of big rigging between these two companies is a serious issue, especially considering the history between them in the last ten years involving four lawsuits including the employment of past personal. I would indeed start a deeper investigation into all of the above to see what comes out in any evidence.

The ex-husbands claims of the company’s working together to keep prices low, I would need to discover where all the e-mails and text messages did originate from by analysis of Extraction of files pertinent to the examination. Methods to accomplish this may be based on file name and extension, file header, file content, and location on the drive and recovery of deleted files including the Extraction of all pass-word-protected, encrypted or compressed data.

Step 2:

I have looked up many cases of bid rigging and it seems like it happens a lot, I took the latest events of a contractor that...