The hotel industry remains an easy target for identity thieves worldwide. ID theft is a rising concern and requires immediate attention! Bad guys are continuously making money illegally by exploiting innocent people and genuine businesses. Plus, they easily find their way out after committing the serious offense of invading somebody’s personal space and by stealing their identity without any authorization. Bad guys are well aware of the fact that hoteliers are required to maintain a complete record of their guests with all sorts of personal and financial information.

Hotels indirectly provide ID thieves with multiple options and alternatives to steal the identity and financial records. The major risk of ID theft is from none other than the workers and staff employed in the hotels themselves. Easy access is what makes hotels a major victim of ID thefts all over the world. Bad guys get easy access to not only hundreds but even thousands of people’s personally identifiable information (PII) together with the financial details in a single place.

• When on a vacation away from real-life’s stress, people tend to enjoy freely as much as possible. There are several instances of people leaving their wallets/ purses unattended, giving an easy way for the employees disguised as bad guys to steal the identity documents and credit cards. 

• Employees can take undue advantage when having a job in hotels. Let’s not forget, they are the ones taking the guest’s luggage to the respective rooms. Stealing the identity details for them is as easy as having a piece of cake. It would take hardly a few seconds to find what they are looking for. Going unnoticed for a few months gives them enough time to master the patterns of guest check-ins.

• Guests never stay in their rooms 24/7 is another major loophole that the employees like to take full advantage of. Having full access to the information of when guests are not present in their rooms makes it really easy for the bad guys to break into rooms with the help of spare keys and exploit one’s privacy.

• Let’s not forget the computers that store complete records of guests right from their full names, addresses, birth dates, credit card information, and likewise. Employees certainly have full access to them as well making it highly dangerous for both the guests and the owners. They can cause some serious troubles by stealing the information of thousands of people at once.

Identity verification is the foremost thing needed to ensure no bad guys get onboarded in the hotel. Here at AZYO, we provide the best identity verification platform which is fully automated and highly secured. AZYO amalgamated the power of Convolutional Deep Neural Networks, Powerful Graphical Processing Units, Artificial Intelligence, Facial Biometrics, Advanced Machine Learning Algorithms, Blockchain, Real OCR & Certified Liveness Detection to verify anyone, anywhere, and anytime. 

AZYO helps businesses rapidly convert more customers, stop fraudsters from infiltrating the ecosystem and get in compliance!