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Fake Unemployment Claims Spiking With COVID, FBI Says

4 - August 2020

It’s bad enough when you lose your job. Right now, though, chances are your bad luck may not end there.

Complaints of fraudulent unemployment insurance claims are spiking because of COVID-19, according to the FBI, and the claims use stolen personally identifiable information (PII).

In congressional testimony in June, Scott Dahl, a recently retired inspector general at the U.S. Labor Department, said that so far this year the agency was investigating more than 400 cases of unemployment insurance fraud.

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