Washington state officials says scammers siphoned hundreds of millions of dollars of pandemic aid posing as out-of-work Washingtonians.
Washington state acknowledged this week that it has lost hundreds of millions of dollars to a sophisticated unemployment fraud ring. Most of the money had come from the federal government in the form of pandemic aid.
One of the unemployment claim notification letters sent to Washington state employers, which were often closed during the pandemic. Tens of thousands of claims are believed to be fraudulent.One of the unemployment claim notification letters sent to Washington state employers, which were often closed during the pandemic. Tens of thousands of claims are believed to be fraudulent.One vulnerability appears to have been the reliance on the mail during a pandemic lockdown.
Eventually, enough employer responses made it through to alert the department that something was amiss. But Agari CEO Patrick Peterson said the accounts also make things much easier for scammers, especially those operating from overseas.
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