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2015 GNYADA Membership Directory

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HOW TO CHECK THE OFAC LIST

Dealers are required by federal regulations to check every customer against the US Treasury Department’s

Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) list. You can check the list by:

Getting the list of Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) and Blocked Persons at

www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/SDN-List/Pages/default.aspx

Your lending institution can check the OFAC list when reviewing a customer’s credit history.

GNYADA’s Dealer Discount Club vendor Verant ID can help you check both OFAC and the Do Not Call

list with a quick swipe of a customer’s license.

What Happens if You Get a Match?

If you get a positive match you must continue your research. Here are OFAC’s ways to determine if the

match is legitimate or a false positive:

Is it an exact match, or very close?

Is your customer located in the same general area as the SDN? If not, it may be a false hit.

If there are many similarities, contact OFAC’s hotline at 800.540.6322 for verification.

If your hit concerns an in-process wire transfer, you should e-mail your question to OFAC. Unless a

transaction involves an exact match, you should contact OFAC Compliance

before actually blocking assets.

Criminal penalties for noncompliance can include fines of $50,000

to $10,000,000 and imprisonment for 10 to 30 years for willful

violations. Civil penalties range from $11,000 to $1,000,000 for

each violation.

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For further information about Verant

ID please contact Jennifer Berman at

718.746.5900 or

jennifer@gnyada.com

or look for them in our Preferred

Vendors area of this directory.