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Canadian man sentenced to 2 1/2 years in U.S. Social Security fraud
The United States Attorney's Office in Alaska says a Canadian man has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison and ordered to ...
Targeted by a Security Fairness Act Scam? How To Report Social Security Fraud
The Social Security Fairness Act, which was signed into law in January, extended Social Security benefits to federal ...
Social Security reminds workers about ‘resurrecting’ people wrongly declared dead
Spurred by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, the Social Security Administration is combing through its ...
Minnesota woman stole $360K from Social Security by passing as her dead mother — does this prove Elon right?
Mavious Redmond of Austin, Minnesota, has pleaded guilty to theft of government funds after more than 25 years of ...
This Minnesota woman stole $360K from Social Security by pretending to be her dead mother for ‘literal decades’ — does this prove Elon Musk is correct about wide…
Claims of widespread fraud in Social Security were misleading, with fraud representing just 0.00625% of the annual budget, ...
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Your Social Security number is in the middle of DOGE’s massive tech system overhaul. Are payments, private data at risk?
Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency wants to combine your Social Security number into a massive multi-agency federal database, which could violate current law and disrupt ...
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AARP Backs Effort to Improve SSA's Assistance for Identity Fraud Victims
AARP’s Fraud Watch Network helps teach older adults how to spot scams. We organize events and education, with hundreds of ...
What is a sim-swap? How you could be targeted by the fraud used to hack M&S
SIM swapping is when fraudsters take control of a consumer’s phone account and request a SIM swap through identity theft or ...
Fraud costing U.S. government hundreds of billions a year as crime rings use stolen identities
Last year, the FBI unraveled one of the largest digital fraud cases in U.S. history, in which cyber criminals from around the ...
Crime rings using stolen identities to steal billions in taxpayer money from federal, state governments
The U.S. government loses hundreds of billions to fraud each year, with criminals using stolen identities to make ...
As new Social Security leadership takes the helm, here are the changes beneficiaries need to watch
Social Security’s approximate 73 million beneficiaries have seen some key changes to benefits and services in the first 100 ...
How SIM swapping led to a $1.8M cyber fraud case
The CyberGuy advises how to protect yourself against SIM swapping, a form of identity theft by which a scammer tricks a ...