Job Scam: Unemployment Scam

 

 

 There's a new scam that needs to be exposed, you can call it the "unemployment scam". The criminals behind this scam steals other people personal information in order to apply for unemployment, then have the benefits funneled to a separate bank account.

Joe Goodway a teacher who is in summer hiatus got an employment benefit card in the mail even if he's still employed.

It all began when he got a letter from the State Labor Department, telling him that the benefits could not be directly deposited into an account instead it would be loaded into his card, which is likely part of the scam.

Joe Goodway said during an interview with News 4 in Buffalo, "At first I thought it was a letter telling me if I were to apply for unemployment benefits this is what I would get. My wife told me this looks like somebody already applied for it".

Then he after receiving the intitial letter he got two more notices showing he was entitled to New York’s full weekly unemployment benefit, the other his $600 provided by the government’s CARES Act.

Julie his wife said, "Our initial thought was that his identity or whatever had been stolen, maybe somebody got a hold of it."

Joe suspects that a data breach a few years ago involving his employer’s health insurance compromised his address and Social Security number. There were at least two hacks involving the insurance company’s vendors and some of his co-workers are dealing with the same notices. He reported the scam to the State Labor Department to cancel all the card’s benefits so they can’t be used.

If you are being targeted of unemployment fraud, report it on the State Department of Labor’s 24-hour hotline at 1-888-598-2077









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