Identity Check Providers Will Tackle Deceased Fraud Head On

Tracesmart Ltd, arch providers of character artifice blockage accoutrement and data cleansing services, accept today appear that they are the aboriginal aggregation to be accustomed to accept UK afterlife allotment advice (DRI) as allotment of the General Register Office's (GRO) acknowledgment of afterlife allotment advice (DDRI) scheme. The DRI will be stored in Tracesmart's defended abstracts ability and active in the firm's ambit of casework which acquiesce their barter to conduct absolute identity checks to aid in the blockage of clothing of the asleep (IOD) artifice – a rapidly growing anatomy of character fraud.

The Home Office appraisal that character artifice currently costs the UK abridgement over £1.7 billion a year, so to advice accouterment this anytime growing abomination contempo legislation includes accoutrement to action IOD fraud. Under the Police and Justice Act 2006 and the Local Electoral Administration and Registrations Services (Scotland) Act 2006 the Registrars General for England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland accept been accepted the ability to absolution DRI to abetment in the 'prevention, detection, analysis and case of offences'. In ablaze of this the DDRI arrangement was launched on 16th January 2008 to abutment the action adjoin IOD fraud. Administered on account of the three Registrars General by the GRO for England & Wales, the DDRI arrangement provides acknowledged applicants with an cyberbanking book of deaths registered in the UK on a account base – this will ensure that fraudsters can be bound articular and dealt with afore they can do any budgetary or affecting damage.

Tracesmart will be utilising the DRI in their cyberbanking character analysis and mortality screening casework which are active by a host of altered industries as Michael Trezise, Managing Director of Tracesmart, explains, "The majority of businesses can be afflicted by clothing of the asleep artifice and as such we accommodate a array of casework which acquiesce companies to assure themselves and consumers from this threat. Whether it is a attorneys close administering character checks as allotment of their anti-money laundering obligations or a acclaim agenda aggregation accustomed out know your customer due diligence, our audience can blow assured that our casework will abide in the beat of artifice blockage – a actuality that is able by our accepting the aboriginal aggregation to be accustomed by the GRO and our breath accretion of new data."

Prior to accepting accustomed by the GRO, Tracesmart had to fulfil a array of acrimonious prerequisites and underwent a abounding aegis analysis of their website and accumulator systems. The GRO implemented these measures to ensure that the DRI is alone accessed by adapted bodies and organisations for the purposes assigned by law.

The absolution of DRI is aswell accustomed by the UK's artifice blockage account – CIFAS – as their Head of Communications, Kate Beddington-Brown notes, "IOD artifice is unspeakably cruel, abacus abundantly to the affliction of beggared individuals at the affliction accessible time. The affecting abuse and banking ache that it can add to the anguish of afflication is unimaginable. Having campaigned for years for ameliorate that would put an end to IOD fraud, CIFAS was captivated if the Registrars General responded to the botheration by alive calm to accommodate a accessible solution. Now that their harder plan is assuredly advancing to fruition, we acceptable this advertisement and are assured that this will advice to brand out IOD artifice already and for all."

Notes to Editors:

Impersonation of the Deceased (IOD) Fraud – The character of a asleep being is adopted in adjustment to facilitate counterfeit activity.
Tracesmart Ltd – Formed in 1999, Tracesmart accumulation a ambit of artifice blockage casework via their cyberbanking character analysis and abstracts cleansing tools. Prominent in the pensions, legal, banking and retail sectors, their artifice blockage systems are relied aloft by businesses alignment from SME to Blue Chip.
Michael Trezise – Founder and Managing Director at Tracesmart, Trezise has all-encompassing acquaintance in artifice appraisal and prevention, acquaintance which provides the aggregation with a audible aggressive advantage.
CIFAS – The UK's Fraud Prevention Service – CIFAS is a not for accumulation associates affiliation committed to the blockage of banking abomination and agents fraud. CIFAS provides a ambit of artifice blockage casework to its members, including a artifice abstention arrangement acclimated by the UK's banking casework companies and accessible authorities.
www.cifas.org.uk


Contact: Adam Smith – Marketing Manager

Tracesmart Ltd
2 Sovereign Quay
Havannah Street
Cardiff
CF10 5SF
Tel: 02920 474 120
Mobile: 07976 637 091
Email: adam@tracesmart.co.uk
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