Posted by Linda_in_IN on 10/8/13 8:34pm
Msg #487460

if you think you can do this on your employer's dime

Is the money you are making using bosses' paper, equipment and time worth it? The State of Ohio may not be the only one watching.


http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/ea21fb0cbbc441cda70557c627162462/OH--State-Worker-Notary-Business

Reply by Linda_H/FL on 10/8/13 8:39pm
Msg #487461

Wow...I used to monitor notary websites when I

was working - how did that prove she was "conducting business"?

BTW, my boss knew - didn't care as long as I got my work done..

Reply by ME/NJ on 10/8/13 8:47pm
Msg #487462

Re: Wow...I used to monitor notary websites when I

Easy everything that person did is logged, documents downloaded and printed. If a company has a IT department everything you do can be traced. Why people use cell phones now to play on net or do things.

With companies looking to save money, and track productivity only a matter of time someone will get caught. Unless you have the ok of your boss.

Reply by JanetK_CA on 10/9/13 12:16am
Msg #487473

Re: Wow...I used to monitor notary websites when I

So right about everything they do can be traced. But if someone is downloading documents with other people's personal financial information, social security numbers, etc., onto a work computer (and potentially onto the company's servers, etc.) it's **not** OK - even if they do have the OK of their boss. That's compromising that borrower's privacy and security.

Reply by 101livescan on 10/9/13 7:57am
Msg #487476

Re: Wow...I used to monitor notary websites when I

If this notary was busy, think of all the borrowers' information that was being shared among the IT, accounting and HR people who are investigating this breach of confidentiality.

Sadly, in some states there are notaries who were convicted of embezzlement and some how continued being notaries. More and more lenders are vetting these notaries from being approved notaries. The Republic Bank in Santa Barbara turned up my name on the Department of Homeland Security as it neared the final fraudguard screening to fund the loan. It was someone in California with my name, so they asked me to complete a statement of information to pass the fraudguard and fund the loan at the 13th hour.

Think of all the notaries and borrowers whose information has crossed unsecured internet email accounts as notaries accept documents from companies owned by questionable individuals.

This industry has a lot of dirty little secrets.

Reply by PegiT_MN on 10/9/13 4:17pm
Msg #487543

OMG....that's hysterical. She was one of the low-ballers people keep talking about on here that was running her notary business at the expense of her employer. She could take $50.00 signings and feel like she was making a profit because she was working for $9.00 per hour at her regular job and she had no expenses when it came to her notary business because the State of Ohio taxpayers were paying for the paper and the ink and probably the pens, paperclips and fax-backs too. Busted!