Security Envelopes
Fierce Payroll's fraud prevention strategy uses multiple layers of protection in order to control payment fraud, some of which are listed below. All envelopes include black security tine, which prevents sensitive check information from being read through the envelope.

MICR Technology
Checks printed using MICR Technology: Magnetic Ink Character Recognition is a character recognition system that uses special ink and characters to provide a much higher level of security and a decreased exposure to check fraud. MICR provides a secure, high-speed method of scanning and processing information in the banking network.

Positive Pay Protection
Positive Pay is a banking process designed around preventing fraud. It consists of a process to submit files to the bank that contain issued check information. When a check is received by the bank, the bank compares the data on the check to the issued check information provided by the client. If the check information contains any discrepancies compared to the issue file, the check is set aside as an exception for the client to review for accuracy. This helps prevent check fraud by preventing criminals from cashing fraudulent checks just by using a stolen account number or blank check. This also prevents the payee from altering the check amount or other vital pieces of information.

Check Security Features
Fierce Payroll exclusively uses the Supercheck, the most secure business check in the world. Internationally Renowned Fraud Consultant Frank W. Abagnale, whose life story provided the inspiration for the Steven Spielberg film Catch Me if You Can, and is one of the world's most respected authorities on the subjects of forgery, embezzlement and secure documents, designed the Supercheck. For over thirty years he has lectured to and consulted with hundreds of financial institutions, corporations and government agencies around the world.

Overt Security Features:
Fourdrinier Watermark: There is a Fourdrinier (true) watermark that is pressed into the paper at the mill and is visible from either side when held to the light. This dual-tone watermark provides instant authenticity of the document and is virtually impossible to replicate, copy or scan.

Thermochromatic Ink: On the back of the check there is a seal printed with thermochromatic (heat-sensitive) ink that changes colors when heated. This thermochromatic seal can be rubbed for instant authentication of the check. Color copiers cannot reproduce the reactivity of thermochromatic ink.

High-Resolution Borders: The check is engineered with intricately designed borders that are difficult to duplicate. High-resolution borders are ideal for covert security because the design often distorts when copied.

Microprinting: There is printing so small that it appears as a broken line or pattern to the human eye. When scanned or photocopied, microprinting will often blur on the copy.

Chemical Wash Detection Boxes: On the back of the check, there is specially designed box engineered to deter check washing. The check is sensitive to over 80 chemicals, and the box makes chemical tampering instantly evident.

Prismatic Printing: The background is designed of subtle gradations between multiple colors. This level of color distinction is difficult to reproduce on most color copiers.

Laid Lines: Lines of varying width and spacing are printed on the back of each check to deter cut-and-paste alterations.

Warning Banner: There is a warning banner that explicitly describes specific overt security features and advises the recipient to look for these features before accepting the check. This warning banner may also deter a forger from "experimenting" with the check.

Covert Security Features:

Controlled Paper Stock: The check is manufactured using imported premium-grade security paper. This paper is not available in America, except as the Check, making it nearly impossible for a forger to replicate the check. The paper contains a true watermark, is reactive to 85 chemicals, and is extremely tightly controlled.

Chemically Reactive Paper: The check reacts to 85 different chemicals. When chemically washed, the Check and its chemical wash detection box discolor, and no longer look like the original document.

Ultraviolet Light-Sensitive Ink: Under UV light, the word "AUTHENTIC" appears on the check, which serves to authenticate the check as original.

Ultraviolet Light-Sensitive Fibers: The imported paper used contains ultraviolet light-sensitive fibers that fluoresce under UV light and further serve as an authentication tool.

Customize your payout and/or add marketing materials

Imprint Color company logo: (or other company information) crisply and cleanly on the Checks

Inserts: We can Print and insert Color/Black and White Flyers, Pamphlets, Newsletters and Leaflets into envelopes

Frank Abagnale Seal of Authenticity