Home IRS Scams Pandemic fraud syndicates eye their next targets for theft of taxpayers’ money
Investigators are still trying to figure out how much was stolen from government programs during the pandemic, but the big-time fraudsters have already moved on to find new targets.
The same identity theft schemes that bilked the unemployment insurance system out of perhaps $250 billion are already being used on states’ disability payment programs.
California earlier this year revealed that it had frozen more than 300,000 claims because of fraud concerns, saying “states have not experienced such scams until now.”
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