Case Study: Large Commercial Real Estate Company achieves reconstruction of deleted message threads to expose fraud with CloudNine

Reconstructed Text Message Chains And A Telling Voicemail Tips The Scales

Large Commercial Real Estate Company faced an internal fraud investigation after a partner exposed corrupt deals while other partners attempted to destroy the digital trail by deleting texts and cloud backups. CloudNine’s active threading and timeline functionality were engaged to address the fragmented, multi‑source data challenge and to reconstruct conversations from backups and forensic images.

CloudNine reconstructed message threads across iCloud backups, laptops and two smartphones, recovered a telling voicemail, and surfaced key metadata (EXIF, geolocations) and messages from WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. Using CloudNine’s tools, counsel quickly pieced together the fraud and the subsequent cover‑up, saving significant investigative time and providing clear, admissible evidence.