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Success stories
Since May 2000, the Check Fraud Investigation Division of Food Lion in Florida
has cleared $500,000 in counterfeit payroll checks alone using the
CrimeBite™ Fraud Prevention System.
Carlyle & Co. Jewelers, which also includes the Jewel Box and H. E. Caldwell divisions,
stemmed losses due to true identity fraud by utilizing CrimeBite™ Fraud Prevention
System on all instant credit applications as well as specific profile checks.
In a seven month period, Carlyle & Company saved $600,000 using the
CrimeBite™ Fraud Prevention System.
Since implementing CrimeBite™ Fraud Prevention System in over 1100 locations, Food Lion
has seen a a drop of about 70% in check fraud.
Food City (KVAT) has experienced a 78% decline in fraud losses since
starting using CrimeBite™ as of October 1997.
Winn Dixie Ft. Worth saw an immediate 40% drop in check
fraud within the first 4 weeks of implementing the CrimeBite™ system.
Numerous grocery retailers have experienced up to a 90% decline
in fraud losses after using the CrimeBite™ system.
In addition to the hard fiscal numbers of check fraud prevention, the CrimeBite™
network of law enforcement has achieved results like these all over the Southeast:
- Multi state drug running ring based in Jacksonville, Florida was cracked by the Secret
Service due to the usage of CrimeBite™ by Winn Dixie, Food Lion, and Premier Meats.
The crooks traveled from Orlando to Raleigh, North Carolina defrauding grocers with
counterfeit payroll checks to finance drug smuggling. The prints they left behind identified
them through AFIS and all are doing federal time.
- Counterfeit checks from Wachovia were passed in North Carolina for two years along the
interstates. The passer had extensive ID’s and multiple driver licenses. Due to the Southeast
Fraud Bulletin the lead detectives were aware he was wanted in another town. Prints
were run and he was found to be a federal escapee from Kentucky. He is back in federal
prison.
- Two days after implementing CrimeBite™ in some test Winn Dixie stores in Fort
Worth, a man walked into the Forest Hills Police Department and turned himself in. It
appears he had cashed two counterfeit payroll checks and had left his FingerPrint
Signature on them and figured he was as good as caught. The police were quite
surprised to say the least.
- In Charlotte, a group surfaced in 1997 that would open a personal account and then
transfer the account information to payroll checks. They hit stores in the Charlotte area
from late Friday to late Sunday and would be gone by Monday. They left FingerPrint
Signature's. They were turned over to the Mecklenburg Police who were able to
identify several players in this ring. From this information they were able to pick up the
ringleader as he was in a print shop picking up his latest batch of counterfeit checks.
- A drug bust in Georgia netted computers, birth certificates, fake ID’s and checks.
One had been passed prior to the bust with the FingerPrint Signature clearly on
the front. It was used to prove the passer’s intent to manufacture counterfeit
payroll checks.
CrimeBite™ is proud to have helped put hundreds of repeat offenders back behind bars.
Continue to watch this web site for updates. Using this medium is just another way
to warn others of
counterfeit check scams and share information about check and identity theft fraud.
Send mail to
wedaniel@crimebite.com with questions or comments about this web site.
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Last modified:
08/23/2007