Anyone else getting bombarded by fraudulent unemployment claims from the DOL despite not being unemployed? This shit in NY is outta hand. Our neighborhood has had multiple fraudulent claims filed for residents. And we've had random cars camping out at all hours of the night presumably trying to intercept mail. I had two men approach my house Sunday morning at around 5am - my Ring App alerted me - and I identified myself to the two guys and let them know I was armed. I ended up calling the police, giving them a description, ID'ing myself as a licensed gun owner and they came by the house really quick. Not sure what - if anything - happened after that.
My employer contacted me today to let me know that someone is trying to claim unemployment insurance in my name. So I had to freeze my credit report with all three agencies. I've been getting letters from the DOL with my SSN under a different address - luckily my mail carrier knows me and she delivered the letters to me anyways. Otherwise, I'd have never known until now. I filed a complaint with the NY DOL - and of course have heard fucking nothing from that clownshow.
People are desperate and this shit is a bit scary. So I urge you - any time you might be a victim of ID fraud - freeze your credit, change your passwords, report and document it all.
my kids (freshmen in college) both got targeted - kids are easier targets I guess because many are less suspicious to phishing and/or less attentive to snail mail
my kids (freshmen in college) both got targeted - kids are easier targets I guess because many are less suspicious to phishing and/or less attentive to snail mail
My son is also a freshman in college. Did your kids get mail at their schools or email or at home?
Im not going to cross the BBI line, but there is a trend.
Im not going to cross the BBI line, but there is a trend.
Yo that's fucked up man. Sorry to hear. Too many people are hurting for this shit to be going on. These agencies need to tighten the fuck up. Somebody tried to open a $50k line of credit on my house on 4/15 I just found out.
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dollars has been stolen by fraudulent unemployment claims (this estimate was in January) since the rules were relaxed for the pandemic.
my kids (freshmen in college) both got targeted - kids are easier targets I guess because many are less suspicious to phishing and/or less attentive to snail mail
My son is also a freshman in college. Did your kids get mail at their schools or email or at home?
texts first. then mail to the house. now they're inundated with scams but are now on to them.
My company handles HR on an outsourced basis for our clients and we have prevented over 50 fraudulent claims in the last 6 weeks. It appears that much of the fraud is coming from outside of the country.
Ironic, that chopper who had a legit claim was stopped while frauds were paid in full.
I think a lot of the organized rings were run by the drug cartels in Mexico
How different a state's agency operates and/or what they are looking for, can vary immensely from one state to another. So one data base search is not necessarily the most efficient for the next state's needs.
Some of the examples she shares with me are staggering. CA is the leader in fraud by a long shot. It used to be a low estimate of $20 billion, now they are estimating $60 billion in fraud alone. A tremendous amount of fraud originates in the Ukraine, then uses CA/Los Angeles for the address. One house in LA alone had 6100 claims. And our prison systems, as someone stated, are pretty bad too. (It seems crazy to me that the prisons would have people who would commit fraud? Coincidence I guess?) But PA alone had $20 million in checks going to prisoners. One guy was pretty daring, he used a name, probably not his real name, as Suck My Balls...he got $10,000.
The causes; hacking and fraud is big money and they are good enough to get into to almost any system. Next, gov't agencies do not have the highest level software, some of it is woefully antiquated. Last, even if a gov't agency gets a list of 'hits', people who are absolutely guilty, going after them still costs money. These people could have 20-30 addresses or phone numbers. They CAN be found, other software that she sells is scary good, it can track and find people in minutes (San Bernardino shooting several years ago came to a conclusion quickly because the State Police had some really cool stuff.) But most states are not willing to spend the money to purchase that too. Most states are just writing off the losses, and trying their best to limit future fraud.
There are a few ways that could have been used to prevent much of this. Dropping checks from a helicopter like we did was probably the easiest, but most costly. Ah,...our gov't. There is just too much money out there, ripe for the taking.
They had almost all the real information of the employees they impersonated. We think it may have stemmed from one of the big hacks that happened in the past few years. We checked our systems and nobody got in.
The fact that it seems to be a National thing lends credence to it stemming from one of the larger nationwide hacks.
We never had anyone get unemployment in almost a decade of business. Right now, we have 4 former employees on unemployment, none of which should be entitled to it. Among them is someone who resigned (we have it in writing), as well as someone else who put in her two weeks, but was fired in those two weeks for calling a client a name.
We never had anyone get unemployment in almost a decade of business. Right now, we have 4 former employees on unemployment, none of which should be entitled to it. Among them is someone who resigned (we have it in writing), as well as someone else who put in her two weeks, but was fired in those two weeks for calling a client a name.
I personally know someone that scammed over $23K in unemployment. She resigned her job then nearly a year later when the pandemic hit filed for UEI and got it with the $600 kicker. She also currently works under the table.
Protect your ID boys and girls.
my oldest (twins) graduated high school this past May.
Them and many of their friends lost their summer jobs (camps, day care, etc.) so they were eligible for unemployment for a job they never had plus the PUA.
they (not my kids) were sitting home collecting $850 per week at 17/18 years old.
that was perfectly legal, but IMO not what unemployment was designed to support. Even once some of them went to college they were still collecting - more than 15k in some cases.
Then, tax time hit - and they were all nervous but congress bailed them out and said the first 12.5k of unemployment was tax free.
again, all legal, and I'm not jealous like others have said, but someone is paying for this. (aka the tax payers or they will be eventually).
Went on the NY State website and filled out a fraud form. Then I locked down all my credit just to be on the safe side.
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My understanding is that no one can take out loans, apply for credit cards, lines of credit, etc until you unfreeze it. And the reporting agencies are alerted by any attempts to do so. You're the ONLY one who can initiate a financial transaction after you've created accounts with each agency.