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Fraudsters Set Up Shop on the Dark Web Promoting How-To Guides on Filing for Unemployment Benefits

More than 44 million Americans have filed for unemployment in the past 3 months. As local officials rush to provide unemployment benefits for jobless citizens, fraudsters are having a field day. Dark Web forums and marketplaces have been promoting the best techniques for stealing unemployment benefits from unsuspecting citizens. A comprehensive how-to guide for fraudulently gaining unemployment benefits sells for as little as $50, and vendors provide testimony of their success rate by attaching screenshots of their benefit payments. In the past months, Washington State paid out more than $500 million in fraudulent claims, recovering just $333 million.”]

Source: https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/fraudsters-set-up-shop-on-the-dark-web-promoting-how-to-guides-on-filing-for-unemployment-benefits/

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