Product: Ultimate U.S. Address, Zip Code and Phone Fraud-Blocker Database
Company: Fraud & Theft Information Bureau

Larry Schwartz and Pearl Sax, Directors at the Fraud & Theft Information Bureau take their products and services very seriously; they're helping the nation fight credit card and check fraud, after all.

The two founded the organization in 1982 and since then have helped businesses, banks and consumers save millions of dollars through use of their publications and databases and also by providing education on the issue of fraud.

More than 4,000 companies have purchased their products.

Their most recent release is the "Ultimate U.S. Address, Zip Code and Phone Fraud-Blocker Database," which Schwartz and Sax call "the most powerful fraud-screening database we have ever created in our 22 years in business."

The "Ultimate" is their first product to enable users to screen for fraud using the combination of address, zip code and phone numbers recorded on every credit card and check transaction, every credit card and credit application.

The database screens for fraud and warns users of mismatching, so fraud and then chargebacks can be prevented. It covers all U.S. cities, zip codes and phone numbers and can screen all orders received by phone, mail, TV and the Internet, and all automated clearing house (ACH) transactions.

Schwartz said the first company to purchase this product is one of the largest credit card companies in the United States.

The Fraud & Theft Information Bureau has been busy in the last several decades. Schwartz and Sax have provided consulting services to IBM, AT&T, Colonial Penn Life Insurance, the FBI and Secret Service. They founded National Order Systems, one of the first 800 number services and Checks By Phone, a check drafting service.

They also developed the "Name and Address Verification System" (AVS) used by all credit card companies.

In 1989 Schwartz and Sax appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show where their booklet, "Credit Card Safety for Every Cardholder" was presented. They received 20,000 responses from the show.

Other databases available include "The Directory of Mail Drop Addresses and Zip Codes" and "The Directory of Prison, Jail and Drug Center Addresses and Zip Codes."

Fraud & Theft Information Bureau
9770 S. Military Trail, Suite 380
Boynton Beach, FL 33436
561-737-8700
www.fraudandtheft.com