Background Checks

Did the person you are about to hire tell the truth on their application? Would you like to check out that business partner before you invest your money in a new venture? Does your doctor, lawyer, accountant, etc. really have the correct professional license?

You may need a full scope investigation or you may just want to verify a few items. Whatever your need may be, ALL Investigations can help. We conduct these type inquiries in full compliance with all Federal, State and Local laws. Some examples of information that can be obtained during a background investigation include:

• Address Verification
• Bankruptcy
• Civil court history
• Corporate affiliations
• Credit history
• Criminal history
• Door-to-door neighborhood investigation
• Driver’s license records
• Dun and Bradstreet records
• Education verification
• Employment application verification
• Family history
• Judgements and liens
• Motor Vehicle Records
• News text searches
• Previous employer verification
• Professional license verification
• Real Estate Ownership
• Reference verification
• Resume verification

Contact us today for a free consultation.  Special rates are available for business owners needing pre-employment investigations.

Trademark Infringement

Are you losing money because others are misusing or misappropriating your intellectual property without your consent?  Intellectual property laws are designed to protect your work and designs from copyright infringements, patent or design patent violations, trademark infringements, trade secrets violations, and trade name infringements. These include counterfeits, copies, forgeries, fakes, imitations and any use of your intellectual property without your consent.

Our team can perform surveillance and undercover investigations to identify where your counterfeit products are sold and attempt to trace them back to their sources: vendors, suppliers, warehouse and manufacturers.

ALL Investigations can help businesses with the constant battle against intellectual property theft and counterfeit products. We offer market analysis in which our investigators will fan out into the community, looking for counterfeit or unauthorized products at venues varying from flea markets to the shelves of  top retailers. Our success in such cases protects our clients from loss of consumer confidence and diminished brand value.

Business owners have found our investigations useful in areas where criminal violations do not exist and the police therefore can’t be called upon to investigate. Alternatively, there are cases in which laws have been violated but police and prosecutors are just too swamped with their day-to-day caseload to take an interest. We find when we pursue a criminal case and are able to hand a “ready-made” the case to law enforcement, they are more willing to prosecute.

Click here for an article that gives more detail about the impact of trademark infringement.

Click here for more details on how we conduct a trademark infringement investigation.

Worker’s Compensation Cases

Workers compensation fraud is estimated at many billions of dollars a year. ALL Investigations can investigate your workers compensation claims to ensure that the workers are entitled to the compensation they receive. Deciding to have these workers compensation claims investigated can ensure the payment of genuine claims and limit the loss of insurance money. We will meet with you to gather background information on the person and the claim.  During the course of our workers compensation investigation, we will accumulate detailed reports, and conclusive and irrefutable evidence such as surveillance records (photos,  videos and/or audio recordings), interviews and research, and background checks. We have the technical equipment at our disposal to gather the information you need.

Internal Theft or Fraud

All businesses suffer from some form of internal theft. It is estimated that 75–80% of all theft that occurs in a business is employee theft. The remainder of the loss comes from shoplifting. This statistic shows that a higher concentration of prevention should go towards internal theft. There are several different ways to commit the crime of internal theft.  Below is only a  short list of examples of different methods:

• Employees may hide merchandise or goods either on their person or in a handbag, lunch box, backpack, or briefcase and take it out of the business during a break in their shift or at the end of shift.
• Employees may remove equipment or merchandise from the building in the trash and retrieve it later.
• Employees may give employee discounts to friends or family members.
• The employee may overcharge customers and pocket the extra money.
• Checks may be issued and cashed for returned merchandise not actually returned.

Keep in mind that over three fourths of inventory shrinkage comes from employee theft.  Spend your time and resources on combating the larger part of the problem for inventory shrinkage.  While shoplifting is a common and large problem, do not forget about the employees that work for the business and the potential for internal theft.

ALL Investigations can assist your business combat theft by providing you with solutions from surveillance equipment to undercover operations. Contact us today and let us help you keep your profits from walking out the door!