>A financial-world heavyweight suspected that his wife was cheating with her office colleague, and he wanted to secure hard evidence.
>The $3,000 secret setup “allowed him to monitor the apartment in real time on his phone,” Michael Mancuso tells The Post.
>Sounding as proud as any Hollywood auteur, Mancuso, the snoop-camera specialist and owner of Searching for the Truth Investigative Services, says, “Three days later, our client had what he needed: footage of his wife walking into their apartment with her boyfriend.” Add that to salacious text messages extracted from her iPhone, and the cuckolded husband had reason for divorce.
>But you don’t have to be a bigwig with a team of PIs to uncover infidelity. Easy access to technology means that some tri-staters are opting to go the do-it-yourself route.
>At PI Gear spy shop in Freehold, NJ, the No. 1 seller is a GPS device that tracks a vehicle’s movement. Also popular: hidden cameras inside everyday items.
>DIY sleuthing is so prevalent that CheatersSpyShop.com, a mail-order firm out of Dallas, caters to suspicious amateurs. Its president, Anna Lee, also serves as vice president of marketing and development for caught-in-the-act reality show “Cheaters.”
>Her in-demand items include CheckMate, a kit for detecting semen on clothing, and the iRecovery Stick, which retrieves deleted information off cellphones. Lee talks up a new credit card-size GPS tracker. “You can put it in a person’s purse or pocket, but, by law, we can’t recommend that,” she says. In fact, laws involving spousal surveillance can be inconsistent, and those who do it should tread carefully.
>For people not lucky enough to live with careless spouses, digital forensics experts can dig deep into devices. At We Recover Data, headquartered in Manhattan, 40 percent of business comes from people seeking clues to the affairs of loved ones.
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