I just rec’d a notice from NY State unemployment office to update my unemployment claim for weeks in December 2020.
Of course, I never claimed such. Call the fraud line, and after choosing one of about 10 languages, no one answers. You then get sent to a website to register your fraud complaint.
New York truly deserves to be bankrupt.
My regional bank, for a long time, had a warning about unemployment scams going on, especially after the first stimulus checks went out.
I regularly get phishing emails from someone claiming to be Amazon, about a problem with my account. I used to forward them to Amazon fraud, but they don't even bother acknowledging that they receive them, so I just mark them as junk, and trash them.
I never click on any links, in any of the emails I get, even if it's from a company, or bank I have an account with. I get paperless statements, so if I get a notice of a new statement, I go to my bookmarks and access the site that way. I worked in uniform in NY State's prison system for 25 years. I question everything.
NY State Unemployment is a weird setup.
In 2001 Hubby’s job relocated us from NY to CA. Because of relocation I was getting unemployment from NY. Within a few weeks I got a job in CA so called NY to tell them to stop sending checks. I asked how I could return the money I’d already received after I was hired.
The rep was gobsmacked. She said nobody had ever done that before, and they didn’t even have a procedure for stopping payments or receiving returns. (I didn’t believe her; assumed she was just lazy.) She said that since I was so honest I should just keep the money.
So as checks came in I stacked them up. At the end, I sent them back, Certified Mail, and don’t know what happened after that.