Fraud investigations increasingly begin with a simple question: what can be discovered from information that is already publicly available? Websites, corporate records, social media, news reports, online marketplaces, images, maps and other open sources can provide valuable pieces of information. But finding information is only the beginning. The real investigative value of OSINT comes from evaluating, connecting, corroborating and verifying what has been found. Key Points • Open-source intelligence is more than finding publicly available information. Its investigative value comes from systematically collecting, evaluating, connecting and corroborating information so that it can contribute to a wider intelligence picture. • Public availability does not establish reliability. Corporate records, websites, social-media profiles, news reports, images and other open sources can contain inaccurate, outdated, manipulated or deliberately deceptive information and should be assessed accordingly...