E-Mail: OMNISEC International Investigations, Inc.

[jagghagg]

UPDATE: After I wrote the following, Sylvia called me back and said that OMNISEC told her they were just asking for "additional information" - I told her that such was inaccurate as the e-mail is clearly a form e-mail sent out en masse and that results in all of us having to either (A) figure out what hasn't been provided on our resume or (B) just capituate and provide it all over again. She said I should call OMNISEC. I did so, but ol' Marie Von Pain is not answering the phone. So. You can either call and indicate it has been provided, or take a deep breath and provide it all over again.

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I just received an e-mail from a Maria McVoy Van Istendal of Omnisec International Investigations asking for all the information we had to provide waaaay back when we returned our FEAI; asking for all the information necessary to conduct a background investigation.

It says:
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Dear Sir or Madam:

OMNISEC International Investigations teamed with Yale Associates is under contract to the Social Security Administration to conduct background investigations for the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review. You are one of a number of applicants who have applied for the Adjudicative Law Judge positions posted by OPM for SSA. In order to complete the background investigation process we are in need of a few more pieces of information from you. Your full assistance with this process is most appreciated.

Please provide the following information:

Drivers License: Please provide your drivers license number and state in which it was issued

Bar Association: Please list all states where you have been admitted to the bar.

Employment (as listed on the resume you submitted to OPM): Please understand the information we need to have must allow us to match listed employment with the corresponding employment references. If your resume is not set up this way we will need for you to respond to this request.

Please list your employers, dates of employment, their full address, name of your supervisor and phone numbers for your supervisor.

Include this information for your current place of employment as well.

If your former supervisor is no longer at your former place of employment please provide the name and contact information of someone who can verify your employment activities at that company.

If you are or were in private practice please list a business associate who can verify your activities.

Example: Douglas and Copperhill, PC; 1/1/99-12/15/2005; 444 Walnut Street, Sterling, MA; Supervisor: Darla Clark, [phone].

The list of employers and supervisors should coincide or track sequentially with the resume you provided to OPM.

If you have provided all but a piece of this information on your resume already, only provide the missing information we need in order to match it with your resume.

It is preferred you provide this information as an email response to the original sender’s email address.

This request falls under the Privacy Act of 1974.

Questions or concerns regarding this request or if you would prefer to provide this information telephonically, please contact Maria Van Istendal at 1-800-445-6664 ext. 3244.

Sincerely,
Scott D. Meier
Vice President
OMNISEC International Investigations, Inc.

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I called Sylvia Bacquero at SSA - the lovely lady who has been doing all our scheduling to inquire. She was surprised they had contacted me directly. She had me forward the e-mail to her and she said she would take care of it. She indicated that they (SSA) was to provide all the requisite information to OMNISEC, and I should not respond to the e-mail.

I am posting this just in case someone else receives this e-mail.

[doctorwho]

Thanks! I just got the same thing and was thinking -- what? Why?

[shadow]

I just received one also. . .

[testtaker]

Mine was sent at 12:31:37 pm. I forwarded it to Sylvia after I spoke with her. She said she'd get back to me. I suspect that they want the employers set up in their specific format. I'm not doing anything until she returns my call - just want to verify the authenticity of the e-mail. After the security breach at application manager, I just want to be sure.

MODIFIED - - Sylvia verified the company. I called and gave Maria the required info. It was painless.

[gromit]

I received this as well - dated today at 12:28 pm.

[testtaker]

Just in case you wanted to check out the company:
www.omniplex.com/investigative.cfm

[mle06]

so...is the concensus that we do need to reply to the e-mail or we don't?

After posting this, was able to get a call through to Maria Van Istendal with OMNISEC who indicated to me that they did not/could not obtain the standard forms from OPM/SSA and that for a majority of folks, at least some or all of the information they asked for in the mass e-mail is missing. Thus, she recommended that each individual applicant should send an e-mail response ASAP with all the information requested in the mass e-mailing from OMNISEC. Hope this helps.....

[shadow]

I just called the woman, which was an option, and all she needed from me was my driver's license #, states where I am admitted to the bar, and any changes from the information I submitted to OPM - in my case, a supervisor changed, and I gave her the updated info. She was very nice, and the entire call took less than 5 minutes.

[judicature]

Definitely reply to the email.

It looks like everyone got the same message, but you are supposed to look at your originally submitted resume and determine where they need additional information.

Hence, the following instruction at the end of the email:

"If you have provided all but a piece of this information on your resume already, only provide the missing information we need in order to match it with your resume. "

[privateatty]

Ditto on the email.

With all due respect, the email contains no ambiguity.

I remember that some folks never advanced because they didn't put down their bar admission dates...

[gromit]

UPDATE:

I just got off the phone with Maria. She was very nice. She checked my file and told me that I only had to give her my driver's license number and my bar information. She took it over the phone and told me that I didn't need to do anything else.

Total time - 2 minutes, 5 seconds.

[corrina]

After I left a telephone message with "Katie," and prepared a lengthy email, Katie called and
said she needed only my driver's license, bar information, and any new phone numbers
that were applicable.

[lark]

I just got off the phone with Maria of OMNISEC. Thet just needed my driver's license number, bar information and clarification on two former employers.
It appears that a call to Maria will do the trick.

[aaa]

Out of curiosity, have both SSA and non-SSA employees received the email? I haven't received it. I am an SSA employee and I'm pretty sure the agency does not have my Driver's License information. My interview is next week.

On a similar note, none of my judicial references or any others have been contacted...I'm pretty sure at least of my references would tell me if he'd been contacted...of course, he also thought since I was out last week I'd gone to interview then...

[corrina]

I received the email and am not employed by SSA. I wonder if the investigation is in an order consistent with interview order? I also wonder if our references are requested not to report the inquiries?

[snowman]

I didn't get the email. I am a private attorney.

[Propmaster]

shadow said:

I just called the woman, which was an option, and all she needed from me was my driver's license #, states where I am admitted to the bar, and any changes from the information I submitted to OPM - in my case, a supervisor changed, and I gave her the updated info. She was very nice, and the entire call took less than 5 minutes.

Me too. I called because I am not in the habit of providing private information over the Internet (including driver's license) so I wanted to be sure this was a real place before I provided anything. While on the phone, she got my driver's license info - all the rest was in my file - and that was that. Certainly no reason to make a big stink out of it.

[lee]

I received the e-mail today at 12:58, and I do not interview until 2/1.

[snowman]

I interview 1/11. Is it location based?

[julie]

My thanks to all who have posted in this thread.I rec'd the OMNISEC email today, with Katie as the listed contact person. My interview is the last week of January. None of my references have yet been contacted. I will call Katie tomorrow and see if the requested info might be as easy as a quick phone call. I hope so.