Hiring & Employment Fraud: The Intellicheck Podcast

Thanks for having me.

Look, I think it's a large issue and we're certainly seeing it with the current administration and what they're doing going into companies and saying, are these people really valid and should they be working here? Then there's also a whole cottage industry out there of folks selling, say, their Uber license, their DoorDash license, their Gopuff license, whatever it is in the same way that people used to rent out taxi medallions. So do we know two things: is the person actually driving me or delivering stuff the person that was hired? And secondly, are the people that are working for us really who they say they are? And I'd say it kind of hit close to home with us in that the niece of my CTO—a nurse—somebody stole her credentials and got hired as a nurse.

Can you imagine having a medical professional taking care of you who is not a medical professional? So making sure that you are who you say you are when you get hired for a job, I think is really important.

Oh, look, there's plenty of things. I've seen so many articles about how you can go on, say, the Facebook Marketplace and find out how to get your fake ID, a fake bank account, how to get somebody who is going to lease you their app to do whatever delivery it is. Honestly, it all begins with the fact that getting a fake ID that will fool most people is really simple, right? It's $40, you're done. You're in. Most of us are not trained on how to look at a license and figure out, "Well, wait a minute, the holograms aren't in the right place." It's really hard to do. Law enforcement has a hard time with it. So how is the person who's running HR—and then particularly in this remote workforce world—how do I do that remotely, right? Okay, great, I got a picture of your license, how do I make sure that's real? So having systems in place that allow you to authenticate government-issued, particularly in the US and Canada, DMV-issued documents, having that be simple, frictionless, and fast is a good way to make sure that you know who you're hiring.