Fourth Force - Background Verification Company

“Providers and suppliers frame the lifeline of any business...”

How certain are you about the third parties your business is dealing with every day?

Many businessmen find themselves losing momentum and hitting a brick wall when it comes to choosing a supplier or distributor for their establishment. Whether it be manufacturing your product or finding suppliers to purchase your goods, it isn’t easy to find the genuine ones.

Though many companies earn increased profit margins and reputation by exchanging goods and services, there exist some companies whose sole purpose is to gain your interest in order to enter into a transaction with you and disappear with your money.

It is necessary to take appropriate steps to defend your company against such risks. Since such measures can reflect the volume of your turnover and reputation in the market. It is essential to hire the services of background verification companies can help you identify those companies with a fake transaction record before you move ahead and sign bond with them.

Fourth Force, a private Indian background check service company, which can help you verify suppliers or distributors before entering into contact with them. They play the role of an insurance policy against deception and fraud. Fourth Force can help you to thoroughly verify your suppliers and vendors dealing with your company.

Many companies are not updated with comprehensive data about their cab drivers. Taxi drivers have been in the headlines for some time now. Innumerable incidents associated with them have been recorded, among them sexual assault has become quite common.

Yet another private cab driver was arrested for sexually assaulting a popular South Indian actress. The incident took place, while the leading actress was returning from her film shoot in Thrissur. While returning, a vehicle hit her car and following an argument over the accident, the people of the other car forcefully entered and drove off the car along with the actress. The gang of 4 took pictures of the lady to threaten and blackmail her for money.

Couple of days later, an investigation team had identified that the men involved in the incident belonged to the film industry and also the actress’s former driver with criminal background was the main culprit involved in the case. So this case raises the question for background verification of the driver, which the actress had failed to perform. Such catastrophic events can be mitigated from the root if proper, diligent checks are performed prior to their job commencement. When drivers are potentially unsafe for such celebrities then what about the general public?

Without an exhaustive background check, there is no other way to be fully contented about a driver. Background verification companies scrutinize and validate the following credentials of the cab drivers:

·         Proof of Residency

·         Driver's License

·         Criminal History

·         Legal Age

·         Driving Record

Headquartered in Chennai, Fourth Force a private Indian verification company provides trusted broad-range of services for distinct sectors through On-site and in-person Verifications across the country.

Fourth Force - Fearless Furrowers

Calm as a cocoon, silent and far-flung from the turbulent cacophonic reality, lies this deserted small piece of land where I am reclining, rejuvenating, unduly unwinding and introspecting myself, justifying the deeds of the past year. The golden threshold of the new year benevolently embraces me as it surreptitiously imbibes me into it.

(Yeah readers I can hear your voice. Readers : “Where is Rahul and what are you going to narrate today..??!!”)

I am X, the detective from Fourth Force. Rahul is the senior claims consultant from XXX Insurance company. Rahul calls me now and demands my presence in their company for a claims grant verification. “What is it Rahul ???!! tell me over phone, murmur I”. “No Mr.X. You start driving and I’ll narrate it on the go”.

           What I comprehend is this:  XXX Insurance is on the verge of summoning a claim grant of about a few lakh to a luxury car owner, whose car has been vandalized in the Varth(a?) Cyclone that shook Chennai off its legs. However, Rahul suspects a foul play. As I draw into the office, Rahul drags me to the home of the insured. There positions the car itself, with its windscreen reflecting damaged artifacts , and the driver side of the car completely devastated. On conversation, the owner Mr.Gautam recounts that he was driving the car on the roads of Besant Nagar beach when the gusty belittling winds of the Varth(a) cyclone wholly elevated the car and lobbed it aside.

           Sounds legit though. However, my brain contemplates inquiries over it. My mechanic Siva zips in on a humble request over a call. A quick analysis, and he says :” Sir, This is an accident.” He shows us the completely thinned out metal disc of the brakes. The tyre’s treading has lost about an inch of itself. The steering axle is completely cut-off.

After this privy chat, I call on Mr.Gautam for interrogation. He narrates to have driven the car from the Church towards the KFC restaurant at the end of Besant Nagar beach (he uttered this without a forethought. We guys from Fourth Force have served the Police, Intelligence etc., in the past).  If you, the readers are familiar with the geography of the location, you will know that he says to have driven from the South direction to the North direction which implies that the driver side was facing the east direction. The wind bellowed from the East which logically means his car should have toppled to the passenger side (west). Owing to the insurmountable pressure, he confesses to have rammed the car onto a median on the road having driven the car in an inebriated condition, a few weeks back, coinciding with the Varth(a) fury days.

Hiring a candidate with falsified resume is becoming a trend these days. Nearly half of all job applicants include inaccurate information on their resumes, and a flat-out lie about their experience or education. Job candidates make the blunder of being creative on their CV’s without worrying about the consequences. Forged certificates, grade sheets, employment letters or salary slips are false instruments in the eyes of the law that can land anyone for that matter behind the bars.

Employers conduct background verification on job applicants for several reasons and the background verification process varies according to the kind of job designation candidates apply for.

Almost majority of the company in India would have gone through the bitter experience of Negligent Hiring. Negligent hiring can be found when the employee consecutively misuses the authority given by the employer. Negligence of such check can really cost you more! Incidents like slitting throats, sexual assault, murder in cities like Chennai, Delhi by taxi drivers and constructers, has been the mere results of not undertaking such background checks on candidates.

A multitude of background checks are undertaken by Fourth Force a company dedicated entirely for unearthing background information, Insurance Claim investigation, Identity checks and more pertaining to employees, cab drivers or any individual. The company comprises of 100 plus employees from various fields including ex serviceman, former military serviceman and police professionals. Our executives quickly execute the requests by performing a research on the candidate’s criminal history, educational records and past employment details. Our agency has records of cracking down several cases by undertaking direct field verification without performing virtually.

Similar to other industries, insurance sector is not been without pitfalls. The fraud rate was not as prevalent in the insurance industry as in other and this attributes to the high-impact trends inculcated by fraudsters today. Fraud results in negative effect, since it puts innocent people in danger by having to pay higher premiums. Despite several measures taken by the Government, the incidents of insurance frauds are not declining at any cost, which is making more difficult for the insurance fraud fighters in the nation.

There are many ways people are making fraudulent claims to deceive their insurers.

·         Stolen Cars- Criminals use this insurance scam in two ways, either by selling all the car parts or simply hiding the vehicle and claiming it to be stolen by someone.

·         Accidents- Here the value of the vehicle damaged is inflated and the cost of damage incurred is also inflated.

·         Health Insurance- Many healthcare professionals are also getting increasingly involved in such tricks. They provide bills for treatments they had never performed and also increase the price of services provided by them.

·         Faked Death: The next common insurance scam performed by criminals is filing an insurance policy for their own life and making their spouse or child as the only beneficiary.

·         Staged Fires: Yet another common scam is setting up their homes in fire to enjoy the benefits of looting ransom amount from their insurers.  Many insurance companies are spending thousands every year for staged home fires.

Quick adoption of predictive analytic system is crucial for insurance companies during such crucial decision making situations. And today many have begun conducting Background Verification to keep up with new fraud trends in the country.  

“The More Right people Hired, The Fewer Wrong people Fired”        -Robert Half

Almost a fair percentage of business firms hire employees in a short span of time to fill a critical vacancy this approach can create a lot of confusions in the long run. The cost of selecting the wrong person can run your business into a huge loss, thereby affecting the company’s morale and productivity.

Hiring and training people who shouldn’t be brought on in the first place can greatly affect your time and money. If you’re not hiring the right candidate then your ability to succeed in your business will be greatly compromised.

A survey states that “80% of employee turnover is due to bad hiring decisions”.

The biggest blunder you can make when you are in the search for new employees is to rely on the same tried-and-tested methods that you have been using for years. Go for background verification check, this can bring out the hidden past of your to be employee. A bad hire’s influence on company culture echoes beyond the employee’s tenure. Recruiter go through a resilient process they collect, review and weed out applications and resumes, and then select the most qualified candidates for further consideration. Then comes the final step “Background Verification”. A background check delves deeply into the past records of the candidate.

“Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light.”

Almost everyone on Earth is aware of insurance frauds. The insurance field is wide and frauds exist in every sector. In the midst of several forged insurance claim cases, we were entrusted yet another insurance case for quick investigation and brief report.

Mr. X stepped in along with his friend to Fourth Force, one of India’s leading Background Verification Company that undertakes verification for several distinct sectors in the country. By looks and conversation he was found to be immaculate in nature. After meeting my lower officials, who had inquired him about the nature and depth of the case, he walked in to meet me. He opened up about the complete insurance claim and asked us to take immediate action. After certain formalities, he moved down our office with our assurance to fulfill his venture within a short time span.

The distinction between success and failure in an investigation is proper management.

We usually raise four key questions to crack down any case.

·         How are we going to gather the evidence?

·         What do we want to achieve at the end?

·         What resources are needed?

·         How to make use of evidences?

After sorting out answers for the above questions, we entrusted the case to the concerned Fourth Force unit (Jammu and Kashmir) to conduct the verification before the claim would be granted. This case was quite challenging for us, since we had to proceed our verification on the single road stretching between Srinagar and Kargil/Leh that was expected to be closed down anytime due to the heavy snowfall that occurs during the winter. Due to the shortage of time, we quickly triggered the concerned Police Stations in Drass and Kargil and sent our employee for undertaking further investigation and piling up the documents pertaining to the case. Regardless of the clumpsy environment, our employee had to set out for a night journey to Drass and Kargil to complete the formalities related to the case before the closure of the only link between Srinagar and Kargil. The whole investigation comprising of, meeting the claimant and the owner of the vehicle, driver of the accidental vehicle, collection of documents, visiting the accident site and photographs of the scene from different angles was completed in a period of less than three days.