How to Spot a Fake W-2

For decades, organizations relied on skilled document analysts to conduct manual document reviews. Today, these checks are considered obsolete for lenders, mortgage companies, banks, government agencies and other sizable established organizations since fraud detection software helps alleviate the pains of manual reviews, which are time-consuming, error-prone, and subject to human bias. Please note that reviewers are recommended to contact the company using a phone number, email address or other contact information gathered through a web search or other independent research. This is to avoid inadvertently emailing or calling a fictitious contact, using contact details provided by applicants.