It’s Easy Money’: Nigerian Scammer Laughs about Huge Sums Stolen from COVID Welfare Programs
It’s not just Nigerian scammers. It’s scammers from all over the world. In California, as we’ve reported, even scammers in prison.
And there seems to be more theft coming.
(From FEE)
All he had to do was make a list of real people and then search through available databases of hacked information for their Social Security numbers and birthdates.
“In most states that information is all it takes to file for unemployment,” USA Today’s Nick Penzenstadler says. “Even when state applications require additional verification, a little more money spent on sites such as FamilyTreeNow and TruthFinder provides answers – your mother’s maiden name, where you were born, your high school mascot.”
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