EVS Blog

With the recent data breach at Staples stores in the northeastern United States, credit card fraud has once again become a top news story.

As a fraud prevention partner, we feel it’s important for you to know just how identities are stolen. If you have an idea of how criminals do it before it ever happens you can implement the best fraud prevention solutions to ensure your system and data isn’t compromised. It won’t do you any good if you don’t know until after the matter. We are going to explore how fraudsters steal identities and conduct acts of fraud against businesses. There are several easy ways used to steal identities...

Account takeover, one of the most malicious results of identity theft, continues to become a serious problem for both customers and businesses. The increase in Internet-based commerce and mobile payments provides a treasure trove of valuable information for today’s high tech criminals to steal. Even worse, data stolen once can be used multiple times as criminals use stolen information on different merchant sites...

One of the most important things a person can do to combat id fraud is to monitor their credit report as a fraud prevention tool. This simple step, which is free, can alert a user to any transactions that have taken place without their authorization.

The Social Security Number Protection Act, which was signed by President Barack Obama in December 2010, Prohibits federal, state, or local agencies from: (1) displaying the Social Security account number of any individual, or any derivative of such number, on any check issued for any payment by the agency; or (2) employing, or entering into a contract for the use or employment of, prisoners in any capacity that would allow them access to the Social Security account numbers of other individuals.