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Nigerian Fraudsters Bilk U.S. Unemployment Funds for Millions
[PJMedia] The Secret Service is investigating a foreign attack on the U.S. unemployment system that has been deluged in recent months with tens of millions of Americans filing claims.

The New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
 is reporting that a Nigerian fraud ring is using the social security numbers and other stolen identity data to file false claims with states for workers that may not have even lost their jobs. The scheme has resulted in millions of dollars being siphoned away.

The illegal activity seems to be centered in Washington state but at least six other states may have been targeted as well.

The Nigerian fraudsters apparently use middlemen in the U.S. as “mules” to collect the cash.

Real social security numbers are used and, apparently, citizens of specific states were targeted. Authorities may have become suspicious of so many out-of-state claims piling up so the fraudsters targeted in-state businesses and employees.
The New York Post adds:
Federal authorities believe most of the phony claims have been filed in the state of Washington, though evidence suggests similar attacks in six other states: Florida, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Rhode Island and Wyoming, a Secret Service memo obtained by the Times said.
Posted by: trailing wife 2020-05-18
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=571844