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No Company Immune To Employee Fraud

AuthBridge — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Kickbacks, overcharging and bribes are words that have been dominating the Indian press over the last few weeks. Somehow, these illegal activities are universally associated with government. You don’t expect them to be connected with one of the top three automobile manufacturers in the world.

Recent news reports tell of a global auto manufacturer’s employees, in Germany, taking bribes from vendors. The bribery exchange allowed the suppliers to overchaRead More...

Social Networking Sites – Value to Corporates

AuthBridge — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0100

A Great Employee Screening Tool

With new technology come ever new challenges. With these challenges also come risks and benefits. None more so than the rise and rise of social networking sites. If the Internet has radically changed the way companies do business then the likes of Facebook, MySpace, Orkut and Twitter have pushed those changes down even more unexpected avenues.
That, today, has all changed. Now HR managers can google or surf for the IntRead More...

Resume Fraud - Fake Educational Qualifications

AuthBridge — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Forged or Manufactured Degrees

Being a HR professional in today’s business environment is not easy. Along with other challenges that come their way, the one at the core of their responsibilities is staffing. Finding the right person (with the right qualifications, skills and experience), to fill a vacancy in quick time, is always a tough ask.

A basic element of every job application Read More...

Resume Fraud - Inflated Salaries

AuthBridge — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 13:56:23 +0100

False Claims Make for Overpaid, Under -qualified Employees
An inflated salary is a very close cousin to exaggerated job titles and responsibilities. In fact they are closely linked. The seriously widespread abuse of this particular facet of resume fraud is reflected in a survey. A resume services company discovered that 40% percent of the resumes they studied contained false salary claims, the largest area of fraud study.

When devious employees boosRead More...

Resume Fraud - Exaggerated job titles and responsibilities

AuthBridge — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Falsified Employment Details

There is no nice way to say this – but people lie on their résumés. Especially in areas they can get away with it. Previous experience is such an area and therefore a prime candidate for falsification and exaggeration. Job titles and responsibilities don’t mean the same thing from one company to another. In rare cases where they do match, the functions or level of reporting will differ.

‘Fine-tuning’ a resume Read More...

Employee Fraud in the Office

AuthBridge — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 10:22:59 +0100

The Need For Continuous Employee Screening

"Last week, nine Sprint employees were charged with misusing their access to the telecommunications giant's systems to redirect phone charges to other customers by "cloning" their cell phones -- to the tune of more than $15 million in fraudulent charges in the first six months of this year. "

The above case has a very important message for companies in this country. We are the world’s leading BPO provider and it is essentiaRead More...

Embezzlement By Eve

AuthBridge — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:45:24 +0100

Employment Fraud – Ladies Involved Too

In a clear illustration that you cannot be too careful comes a news report of a lady in California, USA who defrauded her boss of more than $1.6 million dollars. It took her just about six years to steal this amount. That works out to about $260,000 a year!

The lady worked for a cement products company as the administrative secretary and was put in charge of accounts receivable. She processed incoming chRead More...

Identifying Cheating Employees

AuthBridge — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 10:47:32 +0100

Continuous Screening Of Existing Staff

If ever there was a case for the continuous background checking of existing employees, then the recent 2010 report of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) certainly emphasizes the urgent need for doing so.

A fraud suspect is not easy to stereotype. That’s the word from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, which issued a recent report about Read More...

Online Identity Theft

AuthBridge — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:33:17 +0100

How Safe Are Social Networking Sites?

There is a price to pay for fame and wealth. Your name may be Mukesh Ambani or Amartya Sen but it will get you no respect from a hacker and an identity thief. In this online age many famous, rich and well-known people are not masters of their domain. The overly used, ‘I was misquoted’ has now become ‘That’s not me.’

The identity ripping of eminent personalities is an all too common occurreRead More...

Diploma Mills - Fraud Institutions

AuthBridge — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:50:34 +0100

Fake Educational Degrees For a Fee

Much of the credit for India’s current economic performance - domestically and internationally – can be laid at the door of our highly educated and skilled workforce. This in turn is based on the extremely competitive and rapidly rising quality of higher education.

However, throughout our modern history, we have looked to the West as the benchmark and destination for quality education. An ovRead More...

Fake Degree Industry

AuthBridge — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:12:48 +0100

Need For Stringent Education Verification

HR managers beware!
As if the situation is not bad enough. What with trying to find the right employee to fill the position; the incessant demands and issues of employees - recruitment staffs have to worry about ‘genuinely’ fake degrees and certificates.

The explosive growth of educational institutions – legitimate and bogus – is fuelled by the huge demand of an aspirational IndiaRead More...

The Whistleblowers’ Challenge

AuthBridge — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:11:40 +0100

Exposing Corporate Fraud

The 2009 scam by a large IT company, in essence, was an inflation of the revenue and profit figures of the company by its promoters. They tried to make the company look better than it was. We have a similar story today that also has its origins in 2009.

In the last few days it has been reported that another company is under scrutiny by several government agencies. The company is being investigated for a host of alleged iRead More...

Using Security Status To Commit Theft

AuthBridge — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:23:15 +0100

Background Screening Of Security Staff

Police in New Delhi announced that they had broken up the activities of a gang of hospital security guards. The guards moonlighted as criminals after they removed their uniforms. These ‘guards’ are suspected of murdering a man while robbing him. They are suspected of being involved in numerous other (and sometimes violent) crimes.

They even used their lockers in the hospital to store guns, ammunition and other Read More...

Employee Theft

AuthBridge — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:41:55 +0100

A Case For Senior Executive Screening

Embezzle: to appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as money or property entrusted to one's care.

Every so often a case of embezzlement is reported in the media. The latest involves a well-known and large personal care products company and one of its senior employees - a deputy general manager. The employee is now in custody for supposedly ordering gold coins worth 25 crore rupees as part of the company’s inceRead More...

Education Fraud

AuthBridge — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:32:11 +0100

Online Essay Writing Scams

Google for ‘essay writing service’ and you will get 2,440,000 results in 0.20 seconds! The leading lines for the services on offer are as revealing in the appeal they make to prospective customers.

“MA and PhD writers from xyz-essay.com will help you with essay writing at any academic level and any subject.”

“100% original, quality custom essay writing service. ... See what makes abc-essays.com the essayRead More...

Pre-Employment Screening Of Doctors

AuthBridge — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:24:59 +0100

Verification Of Professional Degrees

Among other things, doctors as a profession and Healthcare as an industry share a common need – a good reputation. For doctors their good name is as important as their medical skills and abilities. For hospitals, an excellent reputation is as desirable as modern equipment and the best facilities.

“A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one”….. Lord Jeffery

When the good nameRead More...

Growth of Fake Qualifications

AuthBridge — Wed, 26 May 2010 13:41:58 +0100

Need for Education Verification

In the background screening business there is a saying, ‘if it is too good, it can’t be true.’ Adam Wheeler was doing just fine till he got ahead of himself and overstated his achievements and grades. He would have got away Scot free if he was just content to acquire a Harvard degree.

The 23 year-old got into Harvard University on the basis of his perfect (but fake) high school grades and SAT scores. He didRead More...

Fake & Unqualified Doctors Practicing Medicine

Fri, 14 May 2010 15:07:09 +0100

Need for Medical Verification

It is a much stated truism that ‘nothing is sacred.’ However, it still comes as a shock to learn just how low people will stoop to make a buck – or even plenty of bucks.

This piece is motivated by several recent news reports of people practicing medicine when they have absolutely no qualifications or training. These unqualified, untrained and unscrupulous persons are literally playing with people’s lives.

One sortRead More...

False Degree For Real Marriage

AuthBridge — Thu, 13 May 2010 15:52:47 +0100

Fake Qualifications Used To Seal Marriage Vows

“Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do”…Barbara De Angelis

Unfortunately that is not the reality in the Indian marriage scene. Very often you don’t get what you see. It is the ‘getting’ that is important. Witness the recent case of a man who presented himself as an MBA graduate just so that he could nail down a more benefRead More...

AuthBridge Services

AuthBridge — Thu, 13 May 2010 15:50:27 +0100

AuthBridge offers an array of services including Employee Screening, International Background Screening, Substance Abuse Testing, Corporate Fraud Investigation and Prevention, Brand Protection, Risk Advisory and various other Business enablement Services.

We help clients avoid threatening situations and derive real business advantage from challenging opportunities through our real time business improvement insights.

We invest in time to understand clients' needs to deRead More...