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[RIGHT]By Minucheher Zilli[/RIGHT]

Cheating is an act of lying, deception, fraud, trickery, imposture, or imposition. Cheating characteristically is employed to create an unfair advantage, usually in one's own interest, and often at the expense of others. The term 'cheating' is less applicable to the breaking of laws, as illegal activities are referred to by specific legal terminology such as fraud or corruption. Cheating is a primordial economic act: getting more for less.

If you are a businessman you might have come across many cheaters. The purpose of this article is to make you aware as to how you can trace out the footsteps of a cheater using modern electronic gadgets and services.

The outcome of talking to a person who is cheating you will be usually a denial! The truth is that very few cheaters - especially when they are closely related to you - will accept that they are cheating, unless you have probes. In fact, only the cheaters that are looking to end the business partnership want you to take the responsibility to do it, will accept the disloyalty.

Reaching that point, there are only two options for you, catch the cheater, or wait until the association ends later in some way. If you want to catch the cheater, there is no other choice than spying one way or the other. Probably, this is not the most honorable thing to do, I admit it, but before getting into a moral dilemma, you should take into account that the cheater already betrayed your trust, so you should not feel guilty about this. However, note it down that it's the last option.

The methodologies described below will mostly provide you the electronic footsteps left behind by the cheater. You should be aware that there is always a risk involved when spying someone and you could get caught, bringing you unwanted consequences. So, if something wrong happens; don't blame me; follow them at your own risk.

If you are being cheated, you should follow the principle: spend the money, and tap the communication channels. These two rules are basic when gathering information.

Find where and when the cheater meets other culprits, follow the steps below carefully.

Cell Phone Calls

Most people think that cell phones are untraceable, so they are used for communication between two cheaters. Usually, they won't use regular phones unless they are very confident that you are not aware of anything.

Fortunately, you can get every cell phone activity from the cheater's mobile phone. That's because landline numbers are published very openly, and have been existing since a long time. Cell phone/mobile numbers are still largely private and not openly released by phone companies. To obtain owner information for cell phone numbers, you'll need to use a service like Reverse Phone Detective.

Such a service will get you the phone activity and the useful text messages from a cheater or from anyone. Most of them are caught only with this procedure.

If you have a name from any of the information services described here or the Reverse Phone Detective service above, then you probably will need further information about the culprit's partner. Knowing further details about the persons provided from the service is an investment worth doing for your safety.

Knowing the whereabouts of the cheater during the day will definitively get you priceless information.

If you decide to use a GPS car tracking, this device will give you information to match with the addresses acquired from reserve phone detective. A GPS is a device that knows its own position by receiving information from a satellite. When placed into a car, some of them can give you live information about the car position or there are some others that are more useful to catch a guilty person, by recording all the places where such a person remained during the day. These places are then presented to you in map of your own town.

Although there are many types of GPS, the one suggested above will give you useful information to catch a cheater and it can be placed stealthy in the car because they are very small.

Computers are very useful to get into a cheating case these days. Chatting, forums and match sites are very common today and getting in touch with someone keen to cheat is very easy with a computer. Therefore, monitoring these activities is a useful act.

There is a good number of spy software in the market, but you should be very careful to use it, because some of them may crash the computer making easy to expose you, especially if the guilty party is savvy computer user. The very best and most reliable of them is EBLASTER 6.0

Try to get information about joint credit cards and checkbooks ñ if you have any - follow the money and you will get several answers. If you follow the money, you should have additional evidence in a few days.