§ 50.52 DETECTION; RED FLAG.

   (A)   The town adopts the following red flags to detect potential fraud.

   (B)   These are not intended to be all inclusive, and other suspicious activity may be investigated as necessary:

      (1)   Identification documents appear to be altered;

      (2)   Photo and physical description do not match appearance of applicant;

      (3)   Application appears altered or destroyed and reassembled;

      (4)   Personal information provided by applicant does not match other sources of information (e.g. credit reports, Social Security number range and date of birth);

      (5)   Lack of correlation between the Social Security number range and date of birth;

      (6)   Information provided is associated with known fraudulent activity (e.g. address or phone number provided is same as that of a fraudulent application);

      (7)   Information commonly associated with fraudulent activity is provided by applicant (e.g. address that is a mail drop or prison, non-working phone number or associated with answering service/pager);

      (8)   Social Security number, address or telephone number is the same as that of another customer at the utility;

      (9)   Customer fails to provide all information requested;

      (10)   Personal information provided is inconsistent with information on file for a customer;

      (11)   Applicant cannot provide information requested beyond what could commonly be found in a purse or wallet; and

      (12)   Identity theft is reported or discovered.

(Res. 2009-02, passed 4-21-2009)