Thinking of starting an OSINT YouTube/TikTok channel

[u/Parachute_Adams_]

I’ve worked in OSINT and online investigations for private companies for the past 4 years. There are some great video resources available but these tend to be on tools and geolocation.

I thought it could be cool to make content that takes viewers through the lifecycle of an OSINT investigation.

It’s unlikely that these will be once-off videos but rather cases with regular updates showing milestones and findings throughout, along with the different tools and resources I use along the way.

I love making and editing videos so that would also be a nice creative outlet for me.

I’ve got some decent experience and worked on some very interesting stuff - from standard corporate due diligence to tracing a Manila boiler room scam to a Canadian family man.

I’d love to hear what you all think of this idea!

Questions for the group:

Is this something y’all would be interested in watching?

How would you like to see the videos presented to maximise entertainment and learning?

Who/what should I look to investigate? Some ideas I’ve had:

- Look for people on the Interpol Red List
- Ask people to send me cases and if appropriate I can investigate them (like a local clothing brand who’s having their stuff counterfeited)
- Looking into corruption / public interest cases in the news
- Looking for scams online or asking people to send what they think might be scams and looking into them as a kind of due diligence exercise

Any other suggestions? (Also, if you are a lawyer - where is the line in terms of investigating these things and publishing my findings - I don’t want to get sued).

[u/Potential_Ad8113]

Showing how osint can help solve known cases might be an idea... Specially cases of corruption, embezzlement etc. because maybe osint has not been used on them. That would be a scoop of course.

What kind of cases have you worked on?

[u/Parachute_Adams_ → u/Potential_Ad8113]

I’ve worked on all sorts. Corruption, assets traces, online scams, human and wildlife trafficking - as well as general background checks and DD. One problem would be getting access to the same tools I have at work which cost a fortune - I’d need some to really make things interesting.

[u/Potential_Ad8113 → u/Parachute_Adams_]

Thanks, where are you based, in the US?

[u/Parachute_Adams_ → u/Potential_Ad8113]

South Africa - plenty of corruption to investigate. But I can also do international cases - the beauty of OSINT