Verify Identity. Detect Fraud. Uncover Hidden Risk.

SSN Trace

 

In today’s digital-first environment, verifying the legitimacy of Social Security Numbers (SSNs) is a critical first step in any compliance, onboarding, or identity verification process. Vital4’s SSN Trace solution is purpose-built to help you confirm identity data, flag potential fraud, and surface additional insights tied to an individual — quickly, accurately, and securely.

Data, Refreshed in Real-Time

Vital4’s SSN Trace leverages real-time, datasets that allows us to deliver the most current view of SSN activity, ensuring accurate identity verification and deeper fraud insights.

From financial services to gig economy platforms, SSN Trace empowers your team to meet KYC, AML, and fraud prevention needs at scale, without compromising compliance or customer experience.

What Vital4’s SSN Trace Can Reveal

  • Validation of SSN issuance date and state
  • Name, alias, and address associations
  • Inconsistencies and red flags in SSN usage
  • Connections to known fraudulent activity
  • Linked individuals or identity overlaps

This level of detail enables your risk and compliance teams to go beyond surface-level checks and identify risks that would otherwise remain hidden.

Take Your Insights to the Next Level. Fight Financial Crime.

Combat Identity Fraud with AI-Powered Insights

Synthetic identity fraud — where a fake identity is created using real and false information — is among the fastest-growing types of financial crime, with billions lost annually across industries. Vital4’s SSN Trace helps flag mismatches, patterns, and anomalies that may signal synthetic identities or stolen SSNs.

Our AI models support enhanced detection by:

  • Providing data that can help identifty potentially high-risk or previously misused SSNs
  • Enabling clients to detect identity duplication or associations with multiple aliases based on available information

By narrowing your investigation to high-risk profiles, our platform helps reduce manual review time while increasing fraud capture rates.

Who Benefits from Vital4 Trace?

Vital4 Trace empowers entities and companies — across the industries of fintech, financial institutions, background screening and IVD platforms, Insurance and Gig economy platforms, and corporate and employment risk teams — to fight financial crime by deep-diving into identity verification to identify risk.

 

  • Strengthen identity verification during onboarding
  • Detect synthetic identities tied to loan, deposit, or credit fraud
  • Improve KYC and AML program accuracy with linked aliases and address data
  • Support audit and regulatory readiness with complete SSN trace documentation

  • Offer comprehensive SSN insights to customers via white-label or integrated options
  • Add context to name/SSN mismatches or identity gaps
  • Use AI-driven checks to reduce false positives and alert fatigue

  • Confirm the legitimacy of applicant identities
  • Prevent claims or account abuse using fabricated credentials
  • Reduce manual review time with automated insights tied to SSN patterns

  • Screen job applicants or contractors for identity discrepancies
  • Support internal fraud prevention programs
  • Maintain compliance with employment eligibility checks (e.g., Form I-9)

Flexible Integration for Any Workflow

Whether you’re onboarding new users, conducting Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD), or verifying employment eligibility, SSN Trace is seamless to implement:

  • Real-time results via API
  • Embedded into the Vital4Search platform
  • UI access for manual investigation workflows

Our solution supports full CIP (Customer Identification Program) compliance while also delivering intelligence that’s useful across onboarding, fraud prevention, and ongoing monitoring.

Why SSN Trace Is Mission-Critical

With the rise in data breaches, social engineering, and synthetic identity creation, traditional ID checks are no longer enough. SSN misuse is often the first indicator of broader fraud activities.

Vital4’s SSN Trace offers a proactive defense — empowering your team with early warning signals, enriched identity context, and the confidence to act fast.

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