A private investigator has revealed the ‘wildest way’ she caught a man cheating on his wife using an Alexa device.
Cassie Crofts, who runs a licensed private investigation service called Venus Investigations in Australia, gets paid to work on cases of unfaithful partners, whether it’s stakeout surveillance work or background checks.
The PI, who splits her time between New South Wales and Queensland, said she began working with a jilted wife who became suspicious of her husband for being unfaithful while she was away on work trips.
Cassie said the wife was ‘pretty savvy’ as she knew all the warning signs to look out for – including coming home unexpectedly to see if she could catch her husband in the act and checking their joint bank accounts for any unusual spending.
‘So we’re going down the list of things that we might be able to do before going into full surveillance,’ the PI explained.
But after finding nothing to prove her man was secretly having an affair, the private investigator asked the wife whether they owned an Alexa device because it has a hidden feature that may help uncover infidelity.
‘I said, “Do you have an Alexa device.” They do… They both use it. I said, “Did you know that you can download Alexa’s voice history?”‘ Cassie pointed out.
The wife went through their history, and much to her shock, heard another woman’s voice in the background that she did not recognise.
Private investigator Cassie Crofts has revealed the ‘most wildest way’ she caught a man cheating on his wife via an Alexa device
‘This poor woman checks the days that she was away on a work trip,’ Cassie said.
‘And she hears her partner multiple times throughout the night asking Alexa for things while a girl giggles in the background.
‘We caught the cheater in the most wildest way… Technology is catching out more and more cheaters these days.’
Alexa is a voice-activated AI assistant used to control smart home devices, stream music, set alarms, manage schedules and answer questions.
But one of the features many don’t know about is its voice history, which allows users to review, listen to or delete recordings from a specific date via the app.
Her video has been viewed more than 49,000 times, with one woman sharing: ‘I had that same exact thing happen.’
‘Caught my husband by looking at my grocery store reward account. I looked at it and my husband was shopping for things we don’t buy and flower at a store nowhere near our house,’ another revealed.
‘So sad people cheat… Just be honest,’ one said.
The wife went through their Alexa’s history, and much to her shock, found another woman’s voice giggling in the background while she was away on work trips (stock image)
Cassie previously revealed how she discovered an unfaithful man was having a secret affair through Flybuys.
She was hired to uncover the truth after the man’s wife grew suspicious of his frequent trips, which he claimed were to visit his ‘family’.
The couple lived in Queensland – but the wife knew something wasn’t right when her husband was regularly travelling to New South Wales, a claim she later discovered was a lie.
The only detail she noticed in their joint bank account was his random trips to Coles and Bunnings, but she had no other information to prove he was a cheater.
However, the penny dropped when the wife began scouring their Flybuys transaction history and realised where her husband had been all along.
Each transaction showed the exact suburb where he had been shopping.
The suburb turned out to be the same area where the husband’s ex-girlfriend lived.
‘This case was wild,’ Cassie said in her video, with the caption: ‘$10 off your shop, but a very expensive divorce.’
The PI explained how she was working with her client, the wife, to figure out whether her husband was cheating.
‘We were pretty sure he was doing it,’ Cassie explained.
Cassie previously revealed how she discovered an unfaithful man was having a secret affair through Flybuys after his wife grew suspicious of his frequent trips
She added: ‘They lived in Queensland and he was going on these trips to see his “family in NSW”, pretty regularly which he never used to do.
‘So she checked their joint bank account, there was stuff on there like Coles and Bunnings but we didn’t know where that was happening. We didn’t have any details of who was there so it didn’t really help us.’
So, Cassie suggested the wife check their joint rewards accounts for any clues.
‘I said to her, ‘Have you got any joint rewards accounts like Everyday Rewards or Flybuys, that kind of thing?’ And they had Flybuys,’ she said.
‘So we opened the app, and right there were all the transactions – Coles, Kmart, Bunnings – showing the suburb where he had been shopping.
‘It just so happened that the suburb was in Queensland, where his ex-girlfriend lives.
By looking at the tiny details in the transaction history, they realised the husband was never in New South Wales, but was actually visiting his ex-girlfriend, who lived in the same state as them.
‘Bro gave it up for a few extra rewards,’ Cassie said.
She added: ‘For a lot of people, they find it hard to trust their instincts without proof even when all the signs are there.
‘A little evidence gives them the push to take action.’
The detail was enough to confirm the wife’s suspicions were right all along.
