Hello Soft Wash Community Members,

There is a growing trend in our industry towards having third party companies verify our businesses legitimacy. These services as a third impartial party perform checks to verify our proper licensing for our industry and region. They also verify our insurance required by our industry and region as well as perform national criminal background checks on all of our employees all the way up to the owners. Then these companies SEAL or approve our companies to work in and around homes, businesses and families. This with the thought in mind that a third impartial party affirmed that we are properly licensed, insured and hire a strict non-criminal workforce.

The use of third party companies like AskTheSeal.com will start to separate the clean companies from the companies that have something to hide.

Because of this companies that have decided not to take the high road and have short-cut on items like licensing, insurance and criminal background checks may short-cut in another way as well. They may start to created FAUX ID badges.

In this era of computers and software like Photoshop it is easy to counterfeit documents are easy to make. Dishonest companies can and often will scan documents into their computers and change names and dates to defraud other companies and consumers. Documents to watch out for that may be frauds or counterfeit are, liability insurance certificates, workers compensation insurance certificates, workers comp state exemption certificates, auto insurance id cards and yes now..... photo ID cards.

As short-cutting businesses start to lose business due to consumers making choices to use companies vetted by third party companies, they will find a way to make themselves LOOK the part and fool consumers. 

Ask The Seal uses a simple system that keeps consumer fraud from happening with fake ID badges and they do it through their Seal Mail System. The Seal Mail System allows approved companies to schedule either sales calls or service appointments through Ask the Seal through an e-mail appointment setting service. The approved company then can select an employee to schedule for that appointment from a list of approved employees that have up to date background checks. The consumer gets an appointment e-mail that states what employee is coming to their home, what their name is, a photo of that employee as well as when their background check expires. Then they are told that if anyone other than that employee shows up at their door to deny them entry.

Consumers should be weary of ID badges that are not from a third party company. Companies that issue their own ID badges can create them in-house and use their own criteria to choose their employees and who to send to your home or business. You could easily invite a predator into your home.

Consumers should demand third party ID badges from reputable companies like AskTheSeal.com

Watch out the FAKE ID BADGES will start to show up out there!

AC