{"id":24,"date":"2019-07-31T11:32:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T06:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abhashstempblog.wordpress.com\/2019\/07\/31\/employee-threatens-against-background-verification-absconds-after-being-busted-by-springverify\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T17:20:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T11:50:44","slug":"employee-after-being-busted-by-springverify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.in.springverify.com\/employee-after-being-busted-by-springverify\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee threatens against background verification, absconds after being busted by SpringVerify!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

[Originally published July 31, 2019 Last Updated April 25, 2022]<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This story involves an employee who furnished a fake work experience letter, a lot of calls from SpringVerify to the candidate and the employer, and a surprising email from the candidate demanding we get a search warrant.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Note: <\/em><\/strong>We are not naming names here, for obvious reasons. And, we want to portray the story as it occurred to let organizations know that no one is immune to such a scenario, no matter how big or small you are.<\/em>]<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of our partner companies, who has been using our background verification (BGV) services\u200a\u2014\u200aSpringVerify<\/a>, to verify their employees, came across a case of one of their recent hires with a fake work experience. The previous workex shared by this employee didn\u2019t even last a month while what he had claimed an experience of over 18 months. This was unearthed during the BGV process by the SpringVerify team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To make matters worse, the candidate, even after providing consent for a background verification to SpringVerify on behalf of the company, was adamant about not allowing an address check<\/a> to happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is what the candidate had to say when we reached out multiple times over phone and email for assistance to do address check.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Email<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The candidate wanted us to get a search warrant for what is a routine industry-wide process of address verification<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note that confirming an address doesn\u2019t require entering the property\/premises. Also, as a private firm we don\u2019t have the authority to get search warrants. We reached out to communicate this to the HR team and shared our findings, including the email.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At this point, because of the nature of the reply that we got from the candidate, we knew that something was amiss!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Post this, the HR team communicated to the candidate about the experience mismatch and enquired why the candidate wouldn\u2019t allow the address check.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The conversation never happened as the candidate absconded on realizing that there is a background check initiated and knew what the outcome could look like.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, we couldn\u2019t initiate a dialogue between the recruiter and the candidate. We will never know how severe the case was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can\u2019t say if it was a case of espionage or just an example of a desperate candidate manipulating the experience to get a job.<\/p>\n\n\n

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