I turned heartbreak over my cheating partner into honeytrap detective job to help other women catch love rats
Rachel Myers set up private eye agency Love Clarity after being 'made to feel paranoid' by lying ex for years
WHEN Rachel Myers discovered her fiancé had cheated on her, she didn’t spend hours crying – she saw a business opportunity.
After becoming suspicious of his behaviour and sick of his constant lies, Rachel, 48, turned detective and hacked into his computer.
She found dozens of messages arranging sleazy liaisons with women on adultery sites — and realised her partner of eight years had been having multiple affairs.
Being betrayed by the man she loved made Rachel determined to help others in her situation.
So after throwing out her fiancé, Rachel set up Love Clarity, a detective agency that promises to seek out and expose love rats.
She has so far unmasked 54 cheats and vows to continue her work to out as many as she can.
Rachel, from Richmond, Surrey, says: “I was suspicious of my partner for years but he made me feel like I was paranoid.
“In January I finally plucked up the courage to hack his computer and found the messages to other women. Finally I’d beaten him. I felt like a new woman.
“I hated myself for snooping but felt I didn’t have a choice.
“When I saw the messages he’d been sending I was shocked. In one email he talked about having sex with a woman in a hotel.
I sent him a string of flirtatious messages, which he responded to
“He was forced to admit the truth — he’d cheated three times and used adultery websites at least 30 times during our relationship.
“He also confessed that his workmates knew — which was the most humiliating thing of all.”
Rachel was devastated yet glad to finally have the truth. She says: “It was a huge relief to know I hadn’t been imagining things.
“It made me so angry to think so many other women would be made to feel like they were mad by their cheating partners, so I vowed to help them.”
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She knew her experience — spotting the warning signs, tricks and lies — would help.
So Rachel, who already runs a recruitment firm, ploughed her £6,000 savings into her new idea.
The mum-of-two explained her idea to friend Rach Bryant, 34, who works in electronic arts and who put it to the test.
She says: “I’d been dating a man for seven months and started to find his behaviour cagey. I hated feeling paranoid.”
Rachel explains: “I added Rach’s partner on my fake Facebook account. When he accepted, I sent him a string of flirtatious messages, which he responded to.
“I asked a list of questions Rach had requested. One asked if he was married, to which he said yes. Then he agreed to meet me for a date; it was unbelievable.”
Rachel showed Rach the transcript of their chat. Devastated, Rach dumped her cheating partner and offered to invest £3,000 in the company and become Rachel’s business partner.
The pair now have a surveillance specialist and have infiltrated adultery websites, so they can search for their clients’ partners.
Rachel says: “It’s all completely legal. This isn’t about snooping on people for the hell of it, it’s about finding out the truth.”
Since February, Rachel’s business has helped more than 60 clients.
Rachel says: “If I am honeytrapping, I befriend a selection of the client’s partner’s friends on social media so they believe they are already acquainted and are more likely to accept the friend request.
“If they are a cheat it doesn’t take long for them to message me. Things soon turn flirty — and often dirty.
“Sometimes we use surveillance to track them and see if they are meeting other women.
“Exposing cheats has become my passion — I channel all the hurt, anger and humiliation my ex caused me over the years into the business.”
While Rachel has had exclusively female clients in the past, she recently helped a male customer to catch a cheating female partner.
She adds: “We hook female cheats with flattery.”
Rachel has untraceable phone numbers so she can call and text partners to find their whereabouts and the extent they are willing to cheat.
For £70, she will send the client’s spouse flirty messages to see if they reply. The full transcript will be passed on to the client.
For £120, she conducts a full internet search to see if the spouse is registered with adultery sites, if they respond to messages and offers to track their movements.
Rachel says: “The full works, which costs £250, involves us arranging to meet the spouse to catch them out in person. We wear bugging equipment and record it all.”
Of the 60 clients she has dealt with, ten per cent have not been cheats.
She says: “The people we catch cheating are supposed to be in loving, respectful relationships.
“Clients are always grateful to discover the truth. We can’t wait to expose more of these scumbags.”
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