The investigators also posed as buyers, for individual or bulk orders.

The investigators posed as clients to determine the locations where prostitution took place.

In that case, investigators posed as a woman on the Internet and tried repeatedly to get the defendant to show sexual interest in her children.

In some cases, undercover investigators posing as customers were charged up to $550 for needless repairs.

Determining how often investigators pose as journalists is difficult, but what occurred in Wichita clearly was not an isolated incident.

One of those new arrivals was interviewed in February by an undercover investigator posing as an insurance adjuster.

The four were accused of receiving payments and narcotics from undercover investigators posing as intermediaries.

Sitting at their keyboards for hours, investigators pose as vulnerable children while avoiding language that smacks of entrapment.

In a compromise, American investigators were eventually allowed to watch from behind glass as Saudi investigators posed questions to suspects.

The investigators, posing as students, also sent e-mail messages to the three New York providers in September 1998 telling them of the bulletin board.