Patent ID: 7676408

Claim:
A risk assessment method directed to a potential customer performed by a computer system comprising the steps of: accepting by the computer system depersonal information determined by socioeconomic data including one or more costs selected from the group of shelter, utilities and transportation; determining a market limit score from the depersonal information; receiving by the computer system personal information of the potential customer including one or more costs selected from the group of shelter, utilities and transportation; calculating an institutional limit score from the personal information; providing a check limit from analysis of the market limit score and the institutional limit score; entering the check limit into a matrix that includes check verification data and credit rating score data; generating by the computer system a check verification report for the potential customer that may contain negative information and abuse information; retrieving a credit rating score for the potential customer; comparing the check verification report with the check verification data of the matrix and the credit rating score with the credit rating score data of the matrix; obtaining a designation code from the matrix; and arriving at an assessment of risk associated with the designation code from the matrix for the potential customer.