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Detect and prevent hiring fraud with AI-powered tech.

Fraud solutions for staffing

Feel confident you’re placing qualified candidates with real-time ID verification, robust credential checks, and expansive criminal screenings.

Advanced ID verification for identify fraud

More job seekers are using stolen or borrowed IDs and synthetic identities, which blend real and fake data. Now you can match live selfies to IDs in real-time with Advanced ID verification.

You’ll know instantly whether a candidate is who they claim to be. Our AI-powered technology spots fake IDs and photos easily missed by human review.

Advanced ID verification capabilities
  • Verify the authenticity of government-issued IDs.
  • Detect real-time “live selfies” to prevent the use of fake photos (e.g., AI selfies).
  • Maintain full compliance with SOC 2 and HIPAA requirements for using candidate data.
  • Eliminate manual steps such as scanning and emailing IDs.

Verifications for resume and credential fraud

Misrepresenting or making up resume details is common. Nearly 70% of applicants admit to falsifying parts of resumes.

With KarmaCheck, you can confirm a candidate’s education, employment, licenses, and certificates without adding to your team’s workload. Our approach uses database checks, paid sources, and outreach to issuing authorities if needed.

Comprehensive verification capabilities
  • Confirm job titles, employment periods, and organizations directly with past employers.
  • Validate earned degrees, institutions, and graduation dates.
  • Authenticate credentials such as RN, CNA, and MA, plus technical licenses. 
  • Spot differences between the application and verified data before placement.

Expansive checks for criminal history concealment

Concealing or omitting past criminal offenses can occur in applications, interviews, or background checks.

Run criminal checks across multiple federal, state, and county records to uncover offenses candidates may try to hide. KarmaCheck searches are built on data from SSN traces and national pointer databases, ensuring broad coverage.

Expansive checks capabilities
  • Detect concealed felony or misdemeanor charges across counties, states, and federal jurisdictions.
  • Access national sex offender registries and over 1,800 criminal databases.
  • Meet compliance standards for highly regulated industries such as healthcare.
  • Maintain defensibility in negligent hiring cases 

Why fraud poses big risks to staffing firms

Fraudulent candidates can inflict significant damage on your company. Resume fraud alone costs an estimated $600 billion annually. But that’s only one risk.

ID fraud facts: 
• 5% of annual revenue is lost to ID fraud. (ACFE)
• The median loss per fraud case is $117,000. (ACFE)
• 47% of enterprises reported financial losses exceeding $300,000. (Regula)
• 40% of staffing companies reported at least one of their candidates falsified
their identities. (Bullhorn)

Resume and credential fraud facts:
• An entry-level unqualified hire costs a business 30% of their salary. (Business.com)
• 70% of applicants admit to falsifying parts of resumes. (Forbes)
• 85% of employers have uncovered lies or misrepresentations on resumes. (SHRM) 
• 41% of applicants lie about their college credentials. (Zippia)

Criminal history concealment facts: 
• Nearly ⅓ of American adults have a criminal record. (NELP)
• Negligent hiring lawsuits now average $1.6 million. (Claims and Litigation Management Alliance)
• 79% of employers lose negligent hiring lawsuits when they fail to uncover relevant criminal history. (FoxHire)
• 25% of negligent hiring lawsuits result in judgments of $500,000 or more. (Hub)

* “Ban the box” jurisdictions prohibit questions about criminal history in applications and during interviews. But criminal history questions are allowed after a conditional job offer has been extended.

Protect your agency — and your clients — from fraudulent candidates.