My sincere caution to all forum users looking for private investigators. The 3 main investigators that i strongly advise not to use are: Kokusai, SK investigations and SG (who recently change his company to
www.intlpi.com (International Investigators Pte Ltd).
The worst is Kokusai which has a bad reputation since the 80s and it was then i realise by reading through the forum that a member Dilys Poon posted the following on April 15 2013 of which i totally agree. I am going to re attached what was posted so that mummys dont have to go through the bad experiences. My SINCERE advice is, when you speak to any private investigators, judge them how they talk, you be surprised...
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(SK):
Follow are the comments about SK investigations: 1) Posted on Friday, October 12, 2012 - 10:42 pm:
Oh. I do have a bad experience with one company in geylang call SK Investigations. He also blow up my case and my husband confronted me. My husband mock at me by saying how I get a stupid P.I standby at the carpark exit and follow me.
2) Posted on Saturday, October 13, 2012 - 12:10 am:
Yes I also have similar experience with SK investigations. It seems like he is doing the cases himself with a part time investigator. I asked for a refund.
3) Posted on Saturday, October 13, 2012 - 11:22 am:
I visited SK investigation website and seems ok and I think you are right. The way SK represented himself turned me off. He really think he is a genius
4) Posted on Saturday, October 13, 2012 - 8:04 pm:
Yes I remembered SK investigations. I used him about a year ago. He blow my case off. My husband is already in his 60s and he can tell me he lost the target when he came out from office. On the 2nd day, he lost it at a traffic light. Sigh.... And the worst is my husband is driving a van...
5) Posted on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - 1:07 pm:
Hey! Your are right! I thought you are just joking. I visited SK Investigation website and saw him calling himself a genius. Oh my God!!! I think he don't know the meaning of genius....
6) Posted on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - 9:13 pm:
Mikki: I managed to get a refund from SK Investigations. Same as what you say...before hire his service, everything also ok... After hired and paid money, all cannot.
7) Posted on Monday, December 10, 2012 - 12:59 am:
Hello Lawrence, thanks for dedicating your first two posts to such a lengthy cut and paste.
Tort is indeed a very interesting part of law that had banished many sleepy yawns and got many of us lazybones stitting uo in class and regaling over exciting and some hilarious casenotes. The law of tort is indeed very pervasive in our daily lives.
Your two posts look similar, despite the 45 minute time difference in your first and second cut paste posting. Is there something I overlooked that the second post had which your first cut paste did not?
Pls enlighten if so....
8) Posted on Monday, December 10, 2012 - 1:06 am:
Blueblur, Kekeke, good question there leh! ;-) love your candidness!

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Well, was there anyone in earlier threads who was complaining about PI firm SK security and investigation svs? I never paid much attention to if they had a bad review or good, but I reckon such cut paste posts are either intended as a "warning" salvo, or perhaps an "enlightenment" injection that we can learn plenty from?
New beginning lagi solid! Straight ask "u post wrong thread siboh?" hahahaha, good one there, new beginning!!! Made me laugh and laugh and laugh!
And yes, a good laugh is much needed after a tiring yet fulfilling day... I love candidness! Thank you! Muack Muack!
9) Posted on Monday, December 10, 2012 - 1:14 am:
Actually, Lawrence, while the two cut n paste posts are fine (at least with me...), it would actually help more people on this forum ( since most of us genuine parents come to this forum to lend support, encourage and add value to one another without agenda in mind), if you as the boss of PI firm SK can break the relevant part of tort down into more digestible bits, with case notes and analogies. Analogies and stories typically help many to understand and grasp the word of the letter better. With better understanding, people find it easier usually to make better decisions to derive better outcomes,
10) Posted on Monday, December 31, 2012 - 3:01 pm:
This website is a forum to openly share their views. I am Surprise SK Investigations Lawrence is so incompetant to cut and paste. If Lawrence is so good, he no need to cut and paste.. it seems he is scared and defending. Whatever i said is true, check your records! you are making yourself a fatso fool in your industry. At least kokusai does not reply in anyway like you did. If Lawrence is the boss... then God bless You! You dont threaten people in this forum in this way. BY THE WAY> IF IT IS TRUE, THERE IS NO DEFAMATION!!!! SK lawrence, you dont threaten pple and if you are so good, check your records, find and sue me. So unprofessional with empty results and cheating people with all your wonder stories. Maybe you refund too many cases till you cannot recall. Shish... how can ever such a person like lawrence be in the investigation security... twist and turn with wonderful excuses and now COPY and PASTE. maybe should call himself COPYCAT!!!!
11) Posted on Monday, December 31, 2012 - 5:55 pm:
Elly Choo, if what u claim is true, no need to be frightened by him. From his 'cut and paste' i think he is trying to make u shut up if not his company reputation will be ruined.
It good u highlight bad services u received so that mummies here are not taken for a ride. And if he can post here, someone must have inform him.
12) Posted on Thursday, January 03, 2013 - 3:21 pm:
wow......., elly maybe u got it wrong, he might be talking about the 'genius' part, that he think u wronged him.
anyway, if really he have any EQ, he should not come here to cut and paste to 'frighten' the mummies here. This will seriousily do a lot of damages to his reputation.
13) Posted on Monday, February 18, 2013 - 3:34 pm:
Thank you mothers for writing to me personally and sharing your bad experiences you had with SK. Some didnt get their money back and some had a paid for work done with no pictures. i wonder if SK has so much to write and yet i havent even heard from them after much waiting. Not reliable and too many people that had bad experience. Mummie's out ther, dont be afraid to stand up and tell the industry of your bad experience. i havent even received a letter from them or a letter. This forum is for us to show the good and bad pi's who we encounter and certainly dont want another person to go through the same problem like i did. we pay for value and not some cheapskate pi to cheat our hard earn money and give 1000 words of excuses!! SK is not what they claimed to be at all... i should have followed my gut feel not to engaged them when i stepped into their sk office. some mummies told me they walked out in 10 mins after walking in. SO what is lawrence trying to tell us with his long list of cut and paste... you decide
14) Posted on Monday, February 18, 2013 - 4:04 pm:
if he is good, he will not be afraid of ppl exposing his cheating ways and to the extent of threatening with his 'cut and paste'. whiich i believe he himself don't even understand.
15) Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2013 - 5:05 pm:
i was a victim of SK investigations and i will voice out what happen. Sometime last year i had a problem with my husband and was searching on the internet for a pi firm. When i spoke to lawrence of SK on the phone. he assured me of my case and told me it would cost $xxxx of money and inform me that i have to go down to his office at Geylang to sign the contract and make payment. This is my first time and he told me that it was the procedure. After going down to his office and hearing me again, he then told me a different amount which was 3x more than what he told me on the phone... at my wits end and he told me he was the best and recommended by lawyers and all the pass stories of cases he had done and so i committed. After a week, i called him up and he told me that my husband was not seen and alot of excuses he told me and told me by the end of the 2nd week he would get back to me. At the end of the 2nd week, i called him up and more excuses he gave me... i repeated tried calling again and he avoid my calls and even when i use private number to call him. i went down to his office to look for him and there was no report or photos and all he did was verbally tell me what happen! Angrily i shouted at him and he warn me that he could sue me and i had signed a contract with him. HOW COULD LAWRENCE do such a thing.. mummies out there. please becareful. he squeezed me to my last dollar and i am not earning much. This is so unfair of SK Investigations. i should have read this forum before i engaged a pi. Mummies please be wary of SK
16) Posted on Saturday, March 30, 2013 - 2:33 am:
Oh that is very stuxpid of Sk investigators to cover up his flaws. I saw another website (joke of the year) kokusai. And i did some research and he claim to have some super force in him which the evidence will come to him at the end of the day. There is alot of funny things on his website. For entertainment, you can see his website
AS for Kokusai and International Investigators (formerly known as SG investigators). You have to go into the forum to read further.