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Did not file for unemployment

hyacinth003 — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 19:56:08 GMT

A couple weeks ago, my husband received a letter from the state department of employment security. It was regarding an application for unemployment. It listed his last date of employment as March, 2020, and the place a hospital. Cited lack of work.

A couple days ago he received a bank debit card, naming $0, tied to this claim.

My husband never filed for unemployment and has never been near this hospital. We have reported this online and by phone (no one calls you back!).

What the heck is this?

Hyacinth

Re: Did not file for unemployment

SharkE — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 19:58:57 GMT

Ignore

Re: Did not file for unemployment

RedTop — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 20:00:25 GMT

Someone else may have filed using his name.

Re: Did not file for unemployment

hyacinth003 — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 20:02:22 GMT

@RedTop wrote:
Someone else may have filed using his name.

@RedTop

But why, when we got the debit card, etc.? How does this help anyone else?

Hyacinth

Re: Did not file for unemployment

RedTop — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 20:05:59 GMT

The state would've likely used the current address listed with his name and SS number.

Re: Did not file for unemployment

Snowpuppy — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 20:22:36 GMT

@hyacinth003 wrote:
@RedTop wrote:
Someone else may have filed using his name.
@RedTop

But why, when we got the debit card, etc.? How does this help anyone else?

Hyacinth

Everyone gets a debit card that requests one when you apply. It's only loaded when your benefits are approved and you certify your weekly claim. When funds load, the card is sold to others.

It is fraud and it's huge since Covid. DS had to prove he was a US citizen. So did a co worker's husband and adult child.

There should be a "report fraud" hotline or email on the state's website.

Re: Did not file for unemployment

FrostyBabe1 — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 21:11:10 GMT

My best friend works for a large food manufacturing company. Somehow, someone managed to obtain employee information and filed over 1000 fraudulent unemployment claims with the state. It all came to light when these people, who are still employed, started receiving communications from the state unemployment agency. Their employer is working with the state and law enforcement, but meanwhile, these folks have all had their personal information compromised. It's pretty scary.

Re: Did not file for unemployment

Kachina624 — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 20:40:35 GMT

I've heard about people all over, including in NM, getting these cards as part of some scam. You've done all you can do. Just forget about it.

Re: Did not file for unemployment

hyacinth003 — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 20:45:21 GMT

@Snowpuppy wrote:
@hyacinth003 wrote:
@RedTop wrote:
Someone else may have filed using his name.
@RedTop

But why, when we got the debit card, etc.? How does this help anyone else?

Hyacinth
Everyone gets a debit card that requests one when you apply. It's only loaded when your benefits are approved and you certify your weekly claim. When funds load, the card is sold to others.

It is fraud and it's huge since Covid. DS had to prove he was a US citizen. So did a co worker's husband and adult child.

There should be a "report fraud" hotline or email on the state's website.

@Snowpuppy

We are not going to call to activate the card of course. So I still can't figure out how this benefits anyone else trying to steal it. We have the card and it's not going anywhere!

I did go online to report the claim number as fraudulent. Always a scam, right? Thanks for your info.

Hyacinth

Re: Did not file for unemployment

fthunt — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 20:46:51 GMT

These scam people are busy........same thing happened to me first of November. Letter & Form from NYS Dept of Labor requesting employment info to complete MY application for unemployment due to Covid.

My name & address were correct.........but SS # way off.

Marked it up in RED - Retired - Did NOT apply for funds and returned. For a week received two identical 2 pages form letter - Dead Line for me to reply Dec 15

I've never heard a thing back.

Posting last week here - about AZ and they use debit card. I also wonder how the thief gets the cash - if money was to be sent to me.

I don't get it..............................

Re: Did not file for unemployment

VaBelle35 — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 20:54:09 GMT

As I posted on another thread, unemployment fraud is rampant since March across the country.

He needs to go to the state website and find the fraud page and report it.

People use data from old data breeches to submit unemployment claims. They target large organizations hoping that they won't notice and won't respond.

The second part (and you can read this on the FTC website) is they call you, pretend they are from unemployment and ask you to send the money back and give you information on how to transfer the money.

Re: Did not file for unemployment

patbz — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 21:02:23 GMT

Several months ago we got a debit card from AZ unemployment. We reported it and last week an investigator got back to us. Told us to destroy card and sent us a list of actions we could take if we were compromised per our credit reports ( we weren't).

Re: Did not file for unemployment

chrystaltree — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 21:06:29 GMT

Yes, someone filed in my name too. It's happening everywhere. My employer notified me and we both filed a fraud report with the state.

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Mindy D — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 21:12:18 GMT

I posted that the entire prison system in California had inmates that made thousands of fraudulent claims. Some of the claims were ones with stolen identities.

Re: Did not file for unemployment

lynne6was7 — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 22:23:31 GMT

I would suggest your husband check his credit report on (all run together) annual credit report dot com. You can get a free report from each credit agency each year. You can request reports from all three agencies at once, or it may be better to request a different one every three months to see if any other identity theft shows up.

Re: Did not file for unemployment

vsm — Fri, 25 Dec 2020 00:47:33 GMT

@hyacinth003 I seriously doubt there's any such entity as "the state department of employment security." As others have said, just ignore it.

Re: Did not file for unemployment

Hoovermom — Fri, 25 Dec 2020 00:41:09 GMT

@hyacinth003 : Just wondering how your family situation turned out....

Re: Did not file for unemployment

VaBelle35 — Fri, 25 Dec 2020 00:43:14 GMT

@vsm wrote:
@hyacinth003 I seriously doubt ther's any such entity as "the state department of employment security." As others have said, just ifnore it.

@vsm Department of Employment Security or DES (the initials) is her state's unemployment agency.

It is very real.

Every state names theirs differently.

Re: Did not file for unemployment

depglass — Fri, 25 Dec 2020 16:10:08 GMT

I believe its a scam trying to get info out of people fo file claims or do some other dastardly deed. Don't click on any of it.

Re: Did not file for unemployment

4kitties — Fri, 25 Dec 2020 16:26:17 GMT

I would not ignore this. I am the victim of this too and in our state we have been instructed to report it to the state, our local police, the FBI and ftcdotgov.

Someone has used your information to apply for unemployment. We froze our credit.

Please take the proper steps to protect yourself.

My daughter and son in law have had their info used to get large government loans. They had to do a bit of work to get their mess straightened out.