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Fraud has become chronic

So here in my district (GLO7) several stores have been getting hit with in store pick up AND in store first person fraud. This store has been doing on average 60-100 new activations per day since Black Friday. On average they do 10-20 on a good day. This is a B level store. Now that inventory has become picked over at this store it is spreading to the other stores close by in the area. The manager even reached out the fraud and asked corporate to turn off in store pick up. (Digital is the future after all). They denied the request. Legally employees can’t turn them away or not sale to them when they have provided all documentation. (The managers tried given them the run around to delay fraud customers from receiving phone. They got rowdy and security had to be placed at the store.) It’s INSANE. On a Sunday the tracker showed 50 new activations for the store. 32 were phones. Regional manager and opps manager will be at the store tomorrow to assess what’s going on. But think about all the money being loss....I’m wondering what they will do? With the store bleeding out inventory and the cost of it will they close the store? Wondering if anyone has ever seen this?

The store also has the highest ISPU and fraud in the nation. Crazy.

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Fraud at Verizon is like a perfect crime with no punishment. It is very hard to prevent fraud unless it's the stolen identity version and even those get by most of the time. Then you have the credit muling fraud which isn't exactly fraud because in the end the original purchaser is held accountable. They will get hit by a collection agency and credit is ruined for a long time. It seems like a very lucrative business for those recruiting the credit mules. Imagine you recruit 2 mules a week and net 4 phones to sell. If you profit 2k on the four phones that's ove 100k a year in profit. I'm surprised there isn't more.fraud going on.

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Post ID: @iox+WrtlLGI

A manager has the right to “just say no” check out info manager.

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Post ID: @qou+WrtlLGI

A lot of instore pickups are turned off through the southeast because of this.

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Post ID: @yhb+WrtlLGI

I agree with the original person. Fraud is out of freaking control!!! We get several a day. In store pickup is the worst because you can’t detect fraud online as easily. They need a better system QUICK to catch these people. My store has 17 deacts majority all fraud this month. For my store volume that’s a lot and really worries me going forward.

Also it’s really hard to tell sometimes. Most of the time there are obvious signs and red flags. But there are times when I’m on the fence and it’s really tough because if someone isn’t fraud and we flag it etc then we’ve created A less than perfect customer experience.

Plus I hate that it hits us as reps. Trust me I try really hard not to sell to fraud but it happens from time to time they slip through the cracks. And nothing makes me more mad than opening a new month and seeing charge backs :(

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Post ID: @joo+WrtlLGI

The Chronic. Hell of a great album OP.

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Post ID: @lot+WrtlLGI

They are busy writing AI programs to detect fraud. These are being advertized heavily in department meetings

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