Category Archives: Employment Screening

According to the Mail Online, US businessman Andrew Flanagan organised for friends to pose as former employers, supplying fake references, numbers and email addresses.

Flanagan claimed to have held executive positions including roles with retail chain Zara, yet had never held a post with the company.

According to a story in the Hull Daily Mail, an employee who stole £90,000 from a Hull motor parts company was spared jail after promising to pay the firm back.

Waterloo Motor Trade Ltd. offered customers a ‘no quibble’ returns policy that was exploited by David Peters, 43, by filing false returns at the firm.

The Huddersfield Daily Examiner reports that one in 10 small and medium-sized firms across Yorkshire have received a fraudulent reference for a potential job candidate.

“The scale of reference falsification in the region is quite surprising, but also alarming,” according to Lee Hayes from Close Brothers Invoice Finance.

The Guildford Dragon reports that a case against councillor Monika Juneja has been referred to Guildford Crown Court.

The councillor is facing seven charges, including forgery, fraud by false representation, obtaining monetary advantage by deception and wilfully pretending to be a barrister.

A study finds that a third of employers are failing to check up on applicants’ qualifications despite concerns that many graduates may be lying on their CVs, according to The Telegraph.

Research shows that most qualification fraud goes undetected because of a lack of proper checks.

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