Private investigator who charges up to $5,000 reveals the most popular requests from clients – and the shocking story that led her to this industry
- Private investigator has revealed the most popular cases she gets hired to do
- Julia Hartley Moore, from New Zealand, has worked on many surveillance jobs
- For 20 years, she has worked for suspicious spouses, parents and bosses
A high profile private investigator who charges up to $5,000 per client has revealed the most popular cases she gets hired to do – and the shocking story that led her to this industry.
Julia Hartley Moore, from New Zealand, runs her own PI company where she has been carrying out surveillance jobs for the past two decades.
She said the most common requests from clients include infidelity, catfish, online romance scam, and employers keeping tabs on their staff members.
High profile private investigator Julia Hartley Moore (pictured) who charges up to $5,000 per client has revealed the most popular cases she gets hired to do
‘The top of the list is infidelity so physical and financial infidelity. So if someone can betray the one they love physically, you have to realise they can also betray you financially,’ Ms Moore told The Morning Show.
‘Catfishing or scamming are really big [at the moment]. Then you’ve got people like bosses looking into employees.’
She said the reasons bosses hire detectives to spy on their employees varies.
‘You’ve got to look at nowadays where you’ve got so many people working from home. And of course, the boss wants to know “are they really at home working?”,’ she explained.
Ms Moore said one case she recently worked on involved a ‘top salesman’ whose boss became suspicious after his sale figures rapidly declined.
She explained as part of his job for a timber company, he needed to leave the office to drop by other timber businesses throughout the day.
‘The sales figures had gone down so that’s why we were called in,’ she said.
‘When we watched him, he never went near a timber company but he went to a meat packing plants and freezer bag places.
‘And then he went to a butcher shop where he put on an apron and started serving customers. He did deliveries during the rest of the day and then he went back to his normal job.’
She said the most common requests from clients include infidelity, catfish, online romance scam, and employers keeping tabs on their staff members (stock image)
Speaking about how she ended up in the investigative industry, Ms Moore said it all started when she was working for a high-end department store.
‘Unexpectedly, I busted an in-house theft ring,’ she said.
‘A lot of very, very expensive items, small lovely jewellery, were hidden in the female’s person. And that is how a lot of the stuff were leaving the store.
‘Because when you leave that place, it was like going through an airport so the only way you could do it is was like that.
‘All this led me to [become a private investigator].’