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| CASE STUDIES |
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| Case 7
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| Updated in March 2006 |
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| The case of fake relieving letters |
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The relieving letter submitted as
proof of previous employment by an applicant proved a
wild goose chase for our verifiers! The letter was on a
company letterhead and duly signed. There was just one
problem. Nowhere on the letterhead was the fixed-line
telephone number of the company mentioned.
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Efforts to find the company through
internet and telephone helpline services proved futile.
A field verifier was sent to the address mentioned on
the letter-head but to no avail. No such company existed
at the given address. The employment authentication of
the applicant was found to be fake.
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In the meantime, a relieving letter
submitted by another candidate was found to be from the
same company. Though the name of the company and the
name of the signatory was same, the font type and the
look of the letter-head was different, as was the
address mentioned and the signature!! A field verifier
was sent to the second address for a fruitless search.
No such company existed at this address too!
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The letters, however, did carry a
cell phone number of the signatory. After many futile
attempts the signatory was contacted and requested for
the fixed-line numbers of the company. The proprietor of
the company was contacted at the given number, who
confirmed the signatory was a Manager in his
organisation but declared that no one with the names of
the two applicants had ever worked for him! He also
confirmed the correct address of his office which was
distinctly different from the two addresses mentioned on
the letterheads!
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