While not missing an important match is critical, false hits are also a primary concern in many screening systems. They are potentially a drain on investigator time and damaging to client relationships.

While controllable overmatching is essential for testing and audit, an operational identity screening system must be capable of minimizing the false matches. In doing this it will need at times to cope with single word names, greater than normal noise, severe spelling errors, missing supporting data, foreign names, foreign character sets, fraudulent manipulation and more.

Such a system should be capable of finding matches such as:

SEARCH: TONY DONG-SUNG GYUNG
ALERT:KYEONG, ANTHONY

SEARCH:INVOICE NO V-8021~TOSONI/CHAN-SHEI HAN
ALERT:SHEIHAN

SEARCH:ABDULLAH ABDULAZIZ ABDULLAH AL MUSA
ALERT:ABD A/AZIZ A. ALMOUSA

While avoiding false matches such as:

SEARCH :HERR FRANCOIS RIENERT / IM BUEHL 181
ALERT:HERRI BAHALUNA

SEARCH:FIDUCIARY BANK INTERNATIONAL OF NY
ALERT:BANAKAAT-JORDAN INTERNATIONAL INC.