Why Your Institution Needs CrimeDex®
STOP Financial Fraud with CrimeDex
BankersOnline.com's CrimeDex service is an investigative and fraud sharing information network designed to help members detect, prevent and prosecute financial fraud. BOL's CrimeDex network brings together information from the retail, financial services, and law enforcement sectors, in an effort to identify, prosecute and reduce fraud losses.
Simply put, this service will help you reduce fraud losses, streamline your investigations, save time, and cut the duplication of effort that often accompanies an investigation. You will be able to collaborate, in real time, with law enforcement and other corporate investigators enabling you and your staff to investigate and solve cases more quickly and efficiently. The synergies resulting from the combined efforts lead to improved success rates for all. With CrimeDex, you are part of the solution! And here's the kicker - it's extremely easy to use.
An Innovative Alert System
What's more, the comprehensive CrimeDex Alerts will help you spot and prevent criminal activity ranging from check fraud to armed robbery. You will be sent CrimeDex email alerts involving identity theft, check fraud, armed robberies, and other crimes that affect corporations and financial institutions. These HTML emails include suspect images and hotlinks to downloadable, printable, Adobe Acrobat versions of the Alerts. Use the power of the CrimeDex database to prevent crime in your institution.
Powerful Visualization Tools
And for the ultimate tool in visualizing the complex web of fraudulent activity, i2 has provided its iXv technology to the CrimeDex network, enabling investigators to simply click a browser button to visualize the connections in vast amounts of financial fraud data. Fraud investigators can save or print the visualizations they have created and share them with other investigators using i2's free Chart Reader™, or they can drag and drop their visualized CrimeDex network research into i2's award-winning Analyst's Notebook® or Visual Notebook™ to easily organize case information, distill key points from mounting data, and quickly communicate even the most complex cases.
The Importance of Simplicity
That's an impressive array of tools allowing incredible access to anyone investigating a case. But perhaps the most important feature of this service is that it's so easy to use. You don't need to be a computer expert to use this system. The straightforward interface will allow you to concentrate your efforts on solving the crime.
And it works!
- Prevention: CrimeDex has identified numerous matches on suspects attempting new account fraud and thousands of dollars have been saved.
- Apprehension: Numerous arrests are directly attributable to the power of our CrimeDex Alerts.
- Satisfaction: CrimeDex users can't say enough about the service. Check out just a sampling of the comments that we have received.
What should you do now?
It's time to get on board and begin taking advantage of the power built into the CrimeDex system. Take steps toward crime prevention with the Alerts and streamline your investigations by using all the tools available with the database.
Sign up today!
A Little History. . .
CrimeDex was created in 2000 to address the needs of professional fraud investigators frustrated by the lack of information sharing between banks, credit unions, retailers, and law enforcement. The result was duplicated investigations, waste of time and resources, and suspects getting away with blatant fraud crimes.
Today, our CrimeDex service is both an investigative system for the criminal investigation community and fraud prevention system for the financial services sector. Our primary CrimeDex service is focused on fraudulent checks and fraud suspects database. Our users enter their fraud information either individually on a web interface, or by file transfer in large batches.
As investigators search and enter case information, the system enables the matching of related fraud records and allows investigators to collaborate, in real time, with their peers in the investigative community. An agency's investigators' efforts are streamlined and maximized. What often seems a small fraud case may in reality be part of a large ring. Our system was built as a professional investigator's tool. However our financial institution customers asked how to use our data not only for crime investigation, but prevention as well.
To provide a prevention solution we have partnered with eFunds/ChexSystems to provide our suspect data to their FraudFinder Alerts hotlist service. Now when a financial institution runs a name, address, phone number, driver's license, or SSN through FraudFinder, it will check our suspects database for matches. If you are a CrimeDex member and FraudFinder user, when you receive a match in FraudFinder you can log into our network and search the databases and alerts for the matching information. If you confirm the match is related information, you can contact directly the CrimeDex member who entered the suspect's information to find out additional information.
Membership In CrimeDex
Membership is limited to criminal investigators from among the following:
- Public Sector Law Enforcement (Federal, state, county, and municipal law enforcement officers and approved staff).
- Corporate Investigators at federal or state chartered financial institutions.
- Corporate Investigators at corporations with at least $5 million in net assets.
Because the security of our membership base is of prime importance, Amcrin must approve both the overall corporate/agency membership and individual membership applications before granting access to the system. The membership is reviewed periodically for removal of those members in violation of our terms of service, or who have left their original employers.
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Here's what just a few
Crimedex members have to say about CRIMEDEX ALERTS and member services:
"The results to date have been excellent. In Oregon and Washington, numerous, seemingly unrelated, check fraud cases have been linked together between law enforcement agencies, area banks and retailers. Additionally, CrimeDex has helped us internally to reduce our own duplication of investigator effort. We are really impressed with the results in the pilot area and have decided to adopt CrimeDex in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Texas, Utah, Nevada and Arizona as well."
Walt Heilner, Wells Fargo Investigations Manager AZ/UT/NV
"I am so impressed with how this system has been working, you should pat yourself on the back. Being able to network with local banks in our area has proved invaluable for preventing and detecting fraudulent activities at Venture Bank. As more and more financial institutions join Amcrin, the opportunities for catching fraud will be that much more enhanced. Keep up the great work!"
Shannon Rothlin, AVP, Venture Bank
"In fact AMCRIN helped me a lot in the last week and identified an ATM fraud ring for me. I researched some names involved in my case and found other cases, which tie into even more cases that we didn't know anything about! Now it involves losses at US, WAMU, BoA and WFB! AMCRIN saved me a lot of work!"
Carole Byrum, CFE, Wells Fargo Financial Crime Investigations
"Good alert! You definitely have my vote for the CrimeDex Alert helping me to identify the case I had on McElroy. I obtained bank surveillance photos of a suspect from my computer and printed them. When I turned from my computer to pick up the photos from my printer, I glanced at the CrimeDex Alert on my wall and saw the photo of McElroy, I realized it was the same person who's photo I was printing! It saved me many hours of work, and I may not have been able to identify the suspect without the alert. I appreciate AMCRIN every day!"
Carole Byrum, CFE, Wells Fargo Financial Crime Investigations
"The Amcrin CrimeDex fraud sharing network allows us to immediately broadcast casings, counterfeit items, ID theft, robberies, suspects pictures, suspicious activities, and anything else the criminal mind conceives. It is a huge ally in helping prevent further crimes and perhaps apprehension of the bad guys and girls out there."
Cheryl A. Simpkins, AmericanWest Bank
"Clearly there is great value in law enforcement, banks, credit unions, and retailers sharing information on fraud suspects. The Amcrin CrimeDex network has been an important tool for us in the investigation of financial crimes."
Commander James Ferraris, Portland Police Bureau Detective Division, Portland, OR
"When I get assigned a check forgery or returned check case, I cross reference information I have with Amcrin's database. . . You are trying to see if other law enforcement or financial institutions are working the same case so you can get an arrest.
Several months ago I received a case and had it solved in one day. . . . I ran a suspect search in the system and came up with an exact hit. I contacted Portland police and they confirmed the suspect had $90,000 in warrants. I was able to notify one of the police departments here in the Seattle area and they did surveillance on her house. They were waiting for her when she came home. She was indicted."
Jeff Rose, Investigator, Security Risk Specialist, Boeing Employee Credit Union, Seattle, WA
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