{"id":560206,"date":"2021-06-10T21:21:54","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T01:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=560206"},"modified":"2021-06-10T21:21:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T01:21:56","slug":"report-half-of-pandemic-unemployment-likely-stolen-by-criminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-half-of-pandemic-unemployment-likely-stolen-by-criminals\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Half of pandemic unemployment likely stolen by criminals"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-half-of-pandemic-unemployment-likely-stolen-by-criminals%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=560206&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2420816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2420816\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man exchanges Nigeria\u2019s currency Naira for US dollars in Lagos, Nigeria, on April 19, 2021. (PIUS UTOMI EKPEI\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 6:07 PM PT \u2013 Thursday, June 10, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Half of the unemployment money distributed during the COVID-19 pandemic has reportedly been stolen with many believing the theft was initiated by criminals and funneled out of the country. On Thursday, reports said more than $400 billion in U.S. aid was lost to fraudulent claims.<\/p>\n<p>Experts suggest at least 70 percent of the funds were sent to criminal networks in other countries including China, Nigeria and Russia. The Secret Service said an alleged Nigerian crime ring committed fraud on unemployment insurance programs by using Social Security numbers belonging to the victims of identity theft.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A Secret Service investigation out of Charleston, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k3MjGoRVYH\">https:\/\/t.co\/k3MjGoRVYH<\/a> has led to 9 individuals charged with using cyber romance scams to defraud 200 victims out of a total of $2.5 Million. Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/n1kC2tP40p\">https:\/\/t.co\/n1kC2tP40p<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZrpIQVSml6\">pic.twitter.com\/ZrpIQVSml6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 U.S. Secret Service (@SecretService) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecretService\/status\/1400471970567892997?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Secret Service released a statement that said, \u201cit is assumed the fraud ring behind this possesses a substantial PII database to submit the volume of applications observed thus far.\u201d They warned \u201cthe primary state targeted so far is Washington, although there is also evidence of attacks in North Carolina, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Oklahoma, Wyoming and Florida.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The increase in fraud comes as many states are having trouble processing a huge amount of jobless claims resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Secret Service announced it is extremely likely every state is vulnerable to this scheme and will be targeted if they have not been already.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/biden-admin-lifts-sanctions-on-iran-oil-officials\/\">Biden Admin. Lifts Sanctions On Iran Oil Officials<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man exchanges Nigeria\u2019s currency Naira for US dollars in Lagos, Nigeria, on April 19, 2021. (PIUS UTOMI EKPEI\/AFP via Getty Images) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 6:07 PM PT \u2013 Thursday, June &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2279976,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}