US Secret Service memo warns a crime ring is targeting state unemployment insurance programs to commit fraud by using data belonging to identity theft victims
A well-organized Nigerian crime ring is exploiting the COVID-19 crisis by committing large-scale fraud against multiple state …
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@trengriffin
Tren Griffin
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“It might seem strange that people in Washington would be asking to receive their benefits via ACH deposits at a bank in Oklahoma... “We are riding out the Coronavirus pandemic while staying with family in Oklahoma.” https://krebsonsecurity.com/ ...
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@briankrebs
@briankrebs
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Exclusive: A new U.S. Secret Service alert warns of “massive fraud” against state unemployment insurance programs from a well-organized crime ring, w/ potential losses in the 100s of millions. Many of those impersonated are 1st responders, govt personnel. https://krebsonsecurity.…
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@jckichen
@jckichen
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A predictable result of the decades of PII and less-than-PII compromises. The challenge isn't in finding opportunities to use the data, it's in figuring out how to aggregate and merge the data to maximize malicious potential. Current conditions have offered that opportunity. http…
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@patriciamazzei
Patricia Mazzei
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“The Secret Service memo said Washington State had emerged as the primary target thus far, but there was also evidence of attacks in Florida, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Rhode Island and Wyoming. The agency warned that every state would probably be vulnerable...” htt…
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@bobbensonbill
@bobbensonbill
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The government took the simple idea of #UBI. - They added bureaucracy. - They had to have even more bureaucracy to deal with criminal activity that took advantage of the initial bureaucracy. My interpretation. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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@every6thday
@every6thday
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Hey, everyone just had to enter their SS# into the IRS site for some reason along with current address to check to see if they were getting $1,200. https://twitter.com/...
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@sustainkohala
Sustainable Kohala
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Two relatives found out yesterday they'd been signed up in WA state when they received mail from the state UI office. Neither had applied. https://twitter.com/...
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@kbaugh12
Kim Baugh
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Have seen many of these in the past 3 weeks before any $ was moved. Several fraudulent claims letters. If the employer didn't dispute the claim within 10 days then it paid out. Weirdly, many claims were for people still employed by the same place and working!! https://twitter.com…
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@kimmasters
Kim Masters
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Oh, there's gonna be trouble. You don't siphon away money from the people in this administration who are siphoning away our money. https://twitter.com/...
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@baxter_eh
Erasmus Baxter
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“At Western Washington University ... more than 400 out of about 2,500 total employees have been targeted with fraudulent claims,” https://twitter.com/...
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@carolynmcc
Carolyn McClanahan
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Someone claimed unemployment against my company before the #COVID19 crisis - they claimed they were me! We reported it and they still got paid. In Florida, the unemployment system is so broken. Thanks to @SenRickScott when he was governor. https://twitter.com/...
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@osterman
Larry Osterman
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I know a significant number of people in this boat. @ajohnsocyber, I know you were one of the first to flag this. https://twitter.com/...
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@jgibbons1974
@jgibbons1974
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Remember back: “In June 2015, the United States Office of Personnel Management announced that it had been the target of a data breach targeting the records of as many as four million people... [the] number of stolen records is approximately 21.5 million.” Useful years later. http…
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@asktoconsider
@asktoconsider
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One of those who filed a complaint, Anna Zivarts, a Seattle resident who works at the nonprofit Disability Rights Washington, said she found a series of official envelopes from the government in her mail. At first, she worried that she might owe taxes. https://www.nytimes.com/...
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@benbwieder
Ben Wieder
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The only humorous thing to think about with this is the criminals being frustrated by the long wait times and frequent crashes of Florida's unemployment system https://twitter.com/...
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@nytimes
@nytimes
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Federal investigators see evidence that a sophisticated network of fraudsters has targeted U.S. unemployment systems to siphon perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars intended for jobless Americans https://www.nytimes.com/...