What Do The FCRA And EEOC Guidance On Background Checks Say?
By a Biometrica staffer Employers of all stripes, private corporations, NGOs, public agencies, schools, colleges, hospitals, delivery services, home health care providers, political campaigns, even...
View ArticleNegligent Hiring: It Can Cost Your Company Millions
By Charlotte Spencer Sometimes the paperwork involved in bringing on a new hire can seem like a mere formality that you don’t want to spend time and money on. Recent court cases, however, demonstrate...
View ArticleCan A Prospective Employer Run A Background Check On You?
By a Biometrica staffer The short answer, yes. The longer answer is that yes, they can, but for most kinds of background checks, including obtaining a criminal background check report, running a credit...
View ArticleMarch Madness Fuels Record Q1 For Firearm Background Checks In The U.S.
By Anand Vasu A substantial surge in March, a month which had several mass shootings as the United States began returning to business as usual, resulted in the FBI conducting more background checks for...
View ArticleWhen Is A Company That Does Background Checks Considered A Consumer Reporting...
By a Biometrica Staffer According to an October 2019 report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), there were 1,954 background screening companies operating in the United States in that...
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29 Million Healthcare Records Were Compromised In 2020, But You Can’t Protect...
By Wyly Wade Section 13402(e)(4) of the HITECH Act requires the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights, to post notice of any breach of unsecured protected health...
View ArticleAn Eye On The Sky … And The Ground: The FAA’s ITS System: A Backgrounder
By a Biometrica staffer Imagine flying an airplane with nothing but a magnetic compass to guide you. Sounds impossible? But that was, in reality, the only navigation tool aviators once had to guide...
View Article404: Signature Not Found
By Kevin King We’ve come a long way from when we had to sign paper receipts when paying by credit card, and then have a store manager or cashier look over at that receipt and the signature at the back...
View ArticleDrug-Free Workplace Programs: A Brief Introduction
By a Biometrica staffer Several states across the U.S. have legalized the use of cannabis, either for medical or recreational purposes or both, over the past six months or so. With that comes questions...
View ArticleSex Offenders’ Registries And Background Checks: An Introduction
By a Biometrica staffer In previous posts, we’ve explained Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) guidances on background checks, how negligent hiring...
View ArticleFederal Rules On Reasonable Suspicion Testing For Workplace Substance Abuse
By a Biometrica staffer With several states across the U.S. legalizing the use of cannabis, for medical and/or recreational purposes, over the past six months or so, we began a series of posts on...
View ArticleReal Estate Wire Frauds Are Still On The Rise: What You Need To Know To...
By a Biometrica staffer There were 13,638 victims of real estate/rental fraud in 2020, amounting to a loss of over $213 million according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Internet Crime...
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Moving Fraud: Red Flags And Tips For Moving Homes Securely
By a Biometrica staffer For those who want to make easy, illegal money, any kind of enterprise can present itself as a potential opportunity. With more than 35 million Americans moving homes each year,...
View ArticleFlying This Summer? Here’s A Quick Look At How The TSA And FBI Keep You Safe
By a Biometrica staffer Since the start of this year, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has received around 3,100 reports of unruly behavior by passengers, including about 2,350 reports of...
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Phone Scams Affected Nearly 60M Americans In The Past Year — How To Identify...
By Deepti Govind Sample this: Nearly one-in-three Americans have fallen victim to a phone scam in the past year, according to a report from Truecaller published last week. In total, Americans lost an...
View ArticleSenior Citizens Lost $1B To Scammers Last Year — A Look At The Most Common...
By Deepti Govind Millions of elderly Americans become the victims of some kind of financial fraud or internet scam each year. Just last year, for instance, senior citizens in the country lost $1...
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Contractor Fraud: ‘If You Didn’t Request It, Reject It,’ Says NICB
By a Biometrica staffer After someone has been evacuated from their home or been impacted in any other way by a natural disaster, the last thing they’d want is to fall victim to something else. Yet...
View ArticleBeware The Newest Type Of Fraud On The Block: Child Tax Credit Scams
By a Biometrica staffer On Wednesday, July 21, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued a warning urging parents to be aware and on the alert for criminals trying to steal their personal and financial...
View ArticleCommercial Driver’s License Background Checks: An Overview After The New...
By a Biometrica staffer Two weeks ago, a Department of Transportation (DOT) Inspector General audit found that states fail too often when it comes to transmitting driver electronic conviction...
View ArticleHow Pilots Arrested For Driving Drunk Or High Can Still Fly Without Anyone...
By Aara Ramesh In July, a pilot from Florida was convicted for operating a commercial airplane despite his airman’s certificate having been revoked and his medical certificate being suspended by the...
View ArticleHow ‘The Youths’ Are Being Scammed By Influencers Into Investing In...
By Aara Ramesh A couple of months ago, members of an esports organization called FaZe Clan started promoting a new cryptocurrency called “Save the Kids,” which promised to “build a better world for...
View ArticleExtortion Scams Targeting Families Who Share Missing Person Posts Are On The...
By a Biometrica staffer The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a warning in May asking the public to be wary of scammers looking to extort family members of missing persons who share details...
View ArticleCongratulations, You’ve Won The Lottery… Scam?
By a Biometrica staffer Winning the lottery is normally associated with excitement and happiness. And, let’s be honest, it’s something many of us have wished would happen to us and make us wealthier...
View ArticleHow Crime Gun Intelligence Centers Use Technology & Evidence To Combat And...
By Deepti Govind “We know that shooters don’t just stop after one shooting,” ATF (the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) Special Agent Fred Milanowski told ABC 13 News in May. The...
View ArticleStaged Accident Scams: An Introduction
By a Biometrica staffer Between 2015 and 2017, two ringleaders of a gang in New Orleans allegedly staged at least 100 accidents in a scam that was targeted at defrauding trucking and insurance...
View ArticleSextortion Complaints Are On The Rise Again, And The Victims Span All Age Groups
By a Biometrica staffer There’s been a large increase in the number of sextortion complaints made to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Bureau’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) warned...
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Gaps In An Overburdened System Mean That Children In Foster Care Are Too...
By Aara Ramesh A year ago, last October, USA TODAY reported in a bombshell investigation that a foster father in Florida had been arrested in 2019 and had pleaded guilty to charges for rape,...
View ArticleHow You Can Help Prevent Your Young Child From Buying Drugs Online
By a Biometrica staffer A few months ago, Reuters News analyzed data from the National Emergency Medical Services Information System, which represents almost 90% of all emergency responses in the U.S.,...
View ArticleHome Healthcare Background Check ABCs
By a Biometrica staffer A paper published in 1999 stated, in very simple terms, that fraudulent and abusive practices in the home healthcare space are costly. They damage the integrity of the home...
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How To Recognize A Potential School Shooter
By Aara Ramesh On Wednesday, Oct. 20, Nikolas Cruz, 23, pled guilty to 17 counts of murder and 17 counts of attempted first degree murder for his shooting spree at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School...
View ArticleAll About The FBI’s Identity History Summary Checks
By a Biometrica staffer If you are planning to apply for a new job, especially a federal one, or are planning to foster or adopt a child, or are considering other similar new opportunities or decisions...
View ArticleHow To Protect Yourself From Cybercrimes: An Introduction
By a Biometric staffer Only yesterday, Nov. 4., we wrote about how the Justice Department had said in an interview with the Associated Press that they are stepping up firepower in the battle against...
View ArticleWho Is Required To Report Suspected Child Abuse And When
By Aara Ramesh Last month, we wrote about some gaps in the child welfare system that can lead to children in foster care being abused. Unfortunately, the reality is that it’s not just those children...
View ArticleHow Renters Can Protect Themselves From Scams
By a Biometrica staffer As the saying goes, where there’s a will there’s a way. A perverse version of this axiom is also applicable to fraudsters and criminals, who are always on the lookout for an...
View ArticleScam Alert: Don’t Be A Mule, A Money Mule That Is
By a Biometrica staffer Only yesterday, Dec. 2, Europol announced the results of a massive international law enforcement operation that targeted money mules. The operation, codenamed EMMA 7 (i.e. the...
View ArticleHow ‘Red Flag Laws’ Could Stop Shootings Before They Happen
By a Biometrica staffer Earlier this year, in April, eight people were killed by a 19-year-old at a FedEx facility in Indiana. The shooter’s mother had reported to police over a year earlier, in March...
View ArticleUnderstanding The Victim Notification System And Crime Victims’ Safety
By a Biometrica staffer In 1993, a woman from Kentucky, Mary Byron, was raped, assaulted, and stalked by her ex-boyfriend, who was then arrested for those crimes. Unfortunately, he was released from...
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