Don’t trust your body to just anyone. Now, that may sound like common sense, but many people, including the rich and famous, have been bilked out of their hard-earned dollars—and their health—by scam artists intent on manipulating the human desire for beauty into a personal profit.
Most recently print and television news sources have been […]
We are inviting you to a special webinar entitled “Social Media Background Checks: The 7 Commandments of Using Facebook in the Screening Process”
Date: November 3, 2011 Thursday
Time: 2:00 PM EST until 3:00 PM EST
There have been many recent high-profile cases involving an increase in the […]
Over and over the news covers employee fraud and employee embezzlement. Our goal at AccuScreen is to help business get wise about who their hiring, by doing a background check and a making each employee accountable to someone. Read below a recent case dealing with payroll fraud.
Geselle Savoy, 52, of Alamogordo, N.M., pleaded guilty […]
Last month, a California con man was sentenced to 22 years in prison for running a Ponzi scheme that raked in at least $30 million from more than 500 victims and for launching a mortgage fraud operation that targeted distressed homeowners.
The man behind these scams—a Mexican national living in the U.S.—did most of that damage […]
According to a 2011 report, the U.S. has the most diploma mills in the world. This year there has been a 20% increase in known diploma mills in the US, with the number rising from 810 to 1,008. High school diploma mills are of particular concern in the United States and appear to be a […]
In a recent post by Fox Business, “How to Deal with the Charlie Sheen of Your Workplace”, they address the problem of addiction in the workplace. It was something we wanted to share with you.
By Kate Rogers
Do you work with a “Charlie Sheen?” Even more troubling might be, does one work for you?
The world […]
In our recent webinar on February 23rd Kevin Connell CEO of AccuScreen and Mike Sankey discuss Google and Employment Background Checks.
Don’t miss out on the much anticipated webinar tomorrow.
Webinar will reveal:
• Criminal records what can you really get online?
• What are the best practices of obtaining and utilizing criminal records?
• Debunking the myth of Google, Does it search everything or just the shallow web?
• Who is policing the Internet for accurate information?
• Availability of Criminal […]
In a landmark Supreme Court case ruling on January 19, 2011, the United States Supreme Court ruled against a group of government contract workers who filed suit to keep NASA from accessing and requiring personal information about them which was not required at the time of hire. The case, NASA vs. NELSON, argued in October […]
Employers using social or professional networking sites need to use care to avoid attaining and using information in a discriminatory way. Employers need to ensure that they don’t break privacy laws and make sure the information obtained is accurate.
Types of social and professional networking sites available
Some of the most popular are social and professional networking […]
Kevin Connell, AccuScreen CEO and proponent of employer hiring rights, will unravel misleading quotes in a recent Associated Press article and clarify employers’ hiring rights in regard to pre-employment background checks.
TAMPA FL / August 23 2010 — Alarmed by the widely published Associated Press article from August 11th with the headline, “Some Job-Screening Tactics Challenged […]
What is negligent hiring?
Negligent hiring is based on the principal that employers have an obligation to protect their employees and clients from injury caused by their own employees. Employers have an obligation to protect their employees from the “foreseeable” acts of a fellow employee. Negligent hiring happens when a company fails to check references or […]
