Identity Resolution Daily

A few weeks ago, we began publishing Knowledge Center, a series of guest posts authored by some of the nation’s leading experts in identity resolution, loss prevention, fraud prevention and risk management. To date, we’ve had some great analysis from Jeff Stein, president of Executive LP Services and MonitorClosely.com and Barry Graubart, VP of product management, Alacra. If you missed any of these posts, please see below.

In the future, we’ll also feature guest posts from authorities in federal government, retail, insurance and financial services sectors.

Want to be a guest blogger on Identity Resolution Daily? If you’ve have some insight that our readers would find valuable, please leave us a comment and we’ll be in touch.

By Jeff Stein:
Tech Tools to Trap ORCs

“My partners and I once apprehended an ORC ring called the “Brooklyn Knapsack Gang.” They were teenagers from Brooklyn who’d take buses and stolen cars to NJ & PA to steal Polo merchandise. They all carried knapsack bags over their shoulders and wore baseball hats. (Baseball hats helped them conceal their eyes so Loss Prevention could not see…” (more)

Loss Prevention - Then vs. Now

“For internal investigations we used look out perches, integrity shoppers and covert CCTV (B&W pin hole cameras) rigged in a hole or speaker grill that we put in one of the drop down ceiling tiles when we could. Another covert mission would be for one of us to climb into the ceiling before the store opened and sit on one of the steel I beams in the ceiling looking into a hole in the ceiling trying to watch an employee while working at the cash wrap stand. Oh yeah, I would hate to leave out how we would find a big cardboard box and…” (more)

By Barry Graubart:
Complexity of Identity Resolution and Anti-Money Laundering

“…when comparing customer records to Anti-Money Laundering (AML) or Terrorism watch lists, banks and other financial institutions frequently have very limited access to information (on the watch list side). Terrorists, money launderers and drug traffickers don’t often provide a SSN or a street address. Instead, AML pros are limited to matching a name and, at best, city or country. Further complicating matters is the fact that…” (more)

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