Posted on 02/11/2021 4:04:11 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
Early last month, I received a piece of mail from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services providing a personal identification number to access my unemployment account.
But I’m not unemployed.
Nowhere did the notice say I had made an unemployment claim, however. When I first looked at it, I thought that maybe Ohio, having been wracked by complaints about its mismanagement of the unemployment system, was sending PINs to everyone in the state to smooth out the process.
I pretty quickly concluded, though, that someone had made a fraudulent claim in my name. I mentioned it to my wife, who said people on our neighborhood’s Nextdoor.com website had mentioned the same thing. I looked and found a lot of people with identical experiences.
I found that odd. I oversee the biggest news platforms in the state, and I know a lot about what is going on, but I was unaware of this fraud trend. I figured there might be a story in it, so we asked our Statehouse reporter Laura Hancock to ask about it in one of Gov. Mike DeWine’s twice-a-week coronavirus briefings. The answer was a shocker.
Lt. Gov. Jon Husted said the fraud attempts were so high he could not yet provide a number....
(Excerpt) Read more at cleveland.com ...
This is quite the story of government incompetence.
For your consideration.
This one, unfortunately, may be helpful to Ohioans on FR who might have to know about the website referenced in this article.
I had no idea this was happening. Thanks for posting the article.
NP.
It’s quite astonishing— half of all claim fraud.
I posted something about this about two weeks ago. Then two days later I found out I was a victim.
But there is no such thing as election fraud, you know.
I’ve been so sickened by all the news lately I cutback on scanning of FR articles.
If I remember correctly, a colleague of mine mentioned she had been notified of an unemployment claim filed in her name. She contacted our company and they supposedly took care of it. Our company seem to be aware of the fraud due to the reaction to the report.
There may be a handful of employees involved on the inside as part of the fraud ring, to be sure.
I used to work for a fraud department.
What I can tell you based on my experience is that the people who ran it did not know what they were doing because management was too cheap to hire competent, dedicated people and provide them with the needed professional development and networking opportunities to keep up with the fraudsters. They also would not provide the money necessary to buy some of the industry’s best fraud tools.
Me too someone got nearly $11,000 in my name?
I am in Kansas. They paid someone $1,006 for the fraudulent unemployment claim and sent me a 1099-G. I can’t get anyone to answer the phone. Big story in Kansas right now.
Here in Illinois the entire Department of Employment Security database was apparently hacked. Mrs. L had her account stolen and fraud attempted.
We are still trying to clean that mess up.
L
I read few weeks ago that one of the ways in California’s fraud was a guy had girlfriend who worked at college in the dept that handled birth certificates, all proof of identity, social security cards, visa’s
A friend owns a small business - he said he had to report 6 folks who claimed to work for him and wanted their unemployment/Covid benefits so they filed using his business.
OHIO PING!
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How my personal experience exposed massive Ohio unemployment fraud: Letter from the Editor
Cleveland.com ^ | February 6, 2021 | Chris Quinn
Posted on 2/11/2021, 7:04:11 PM by CheshireTheCat
My husband got one also.
Gonna suck on tax day when they demand you pay income tax on that.
Hopefully I will get the corrected 1099-G they promised. Ugh!
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