Feds Suspect Vast Fraud Network Is Targeting U.S. Unemployment Systems
Source: New York Times
SEATTLE A group of international fraudsters appears to have mounted an immense, sophisticated attack on U.S. unemployment systems, creating a network that has already siphoned millions of dollars in payments that were intended to avert an economic collapse, according to federal authorities.
The attackers have used detailed information about U.S. citizens, such as social security numbers that may have been obtained from cyber hacks of years past, to file claims on behalf of people who have not been laid off, officials said. The attack has exploited state unemployment systems at a time when they are straining to process a crush of claims from an employment crisis unmatched since the Great Depression.
With many states rushing to pay claims, payments have gone straight to direct-deposit accounts. In Washington State, the agency tasked with managing unemployment claims there began realizing the extent of the problem in recent days when still-employed people called to question why they had received confirmation paperwork in the mail.
This is a gut punch, said Suzi LeVine, the commissioner of Washington States Employment Security Department.
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I'm one of those people in Washington state who received a notification from the Employment Security Department. I hadn't applied so I notified them that it was probably fraud.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)It's called t-rump and his cronies along with the republican party.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)If rump can destroy the judicial system, he can avoid the 3000 year prison sentence he deserves.
iluvtennis
(19,863 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)vast fraud network. And, it is international.
erronis
(15,303 posts)LiberalFighter
(50,950 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,036 posts)Lonestarblue
(10,018 posts)Some states are still using very old Windows software that hasnt been supported for decades. What is wrong with this country that legislators do nothing about our security?
Greg K
(599 posts)NotHardly
(1,062 posts)A group of international fraudsters appears to have mounted an immense, sophisticated attack on U.S. unemployment systems, creating a network that has already siphoned millions of dollars in payments that were intended to avert an economic collapse, ...The attackers have used detailed information about U.S. citizens, such as social security numbers that may have been (<<were) obtained from cyber hacks of years past, to file claims on behalf of people who have not been laid off, officials said.
So, was it someone else or was it the new Dept of Just'us'? Hey! They steal PPE equipment & supplies from states, this is not much of a step further now is it?
notdarkyet
(2,226 posts)DrToast
(6,414 posts)ancianita
(36,099 posts)help themselves. It's why I've never done electronic banking.
What I want to know is, what's Wm. Evanina doing in counterintelligence at the NCSC. I hope he's collecting names, amounts, IP's and readying red notice requests to be made by the next DOJ.
This nation is being stripped of its cash and assets. It will be so crippled by next year, it will be a wonder if a Democratic president can even get it back into pre-2016 shape.
elleng
(130,975 posts)DrToast
(6,414 posts)That information was never sold on the dark web. Ill bet its being used now.