Possibly Hacked?

I got a letter from Texas Workforce Commission, unemployment, a couple weeks ago.

I looked it over briefly, decided it was information should I need to apply for unemployment, which I don't, so I trashed it. I have never applied for unemployment in my life.

Today the secretary at work chased me down with a letter from TWC wanting verification that I have been permanently laid off. Supposedly she contacted them and told them I did not apply for benefits. I'm going to contact them myself, I don't really trust her.

Apparently someone has my information and has applied to receive benefits. But I don't know enough about how it works. How would they get the money if the letter came to my home address? I suppose they can open a bank account and have it routed there.

I need to contact my bank and the credit bureaus tomorrow.

What is the bad part is that if they get unemployment in your name you owe the taxes. Good luck, follow up before next years filings.

As soon as they know they are going to get Unemployment they ask for a change of address. The whole thing is done on the web site. A phone call might just fix the whole deal.

And they come after you to get it back when they find out somethings up.

I got hacked 2 weeks ago. Had my ss# and tried to open an account, then got into my Post Office and forwarded mail down south. Got most of it stopped and got the Sheriff involved along with password changes. I got warned from the bank that some one tried to change my Email on my account. Ron MN

Good luck, the Texas Workforce Commission is the most brain dead organization on the planet. They have been hounding me for 20 years to pay taxes on a period I had no employees. Tried for a couple years to straighten them out but realized I was going to pay more in postage than the twenty dollar tax was. They still send me a bill every February.

Both my wife and I got letters from the Kansas Dept of Labor around Christmas time informing us that our applications for unemployment had been received and were being processed. Only problem is that neither of us have ever filed for unemployment. We did the necessary reporting on the KDOL website and put alerts in place with the credit bureaus. What was really alarming is that I received a 1099 form in January stating that I had received around $1500 of unemployment benefits. Uh, no I didn't. (My wife's only compensated employment is as a school sub now and then so her application probably wouldn't have netted the fraudsters anything.) I mailed the form back to the KDOL along with a note with the law enforcement case number that I had been issued in December. A few weeks later I received a new 1099 form with the correct zero dollars of benefits. I'm sure somebody out there pocketed the cash. I've seen news articles that this sort of fraud is a serious problem these days.

We had a voicemail on Monday saying our Amazon account had a fraudulent charge for an i-phone and to call a number. Wife called back and handed me the phone to talk to a (foreign) guy about it. He got me to give control of my PC so he could run a scan. Said there were two malwares and 72 hackers had access to my bank accounts and could take up to $21,500 out. He could remove the hacks if I went to a store right now and bought a $500 gift card for Target or Bestbuy. The codes on the back could allow him to do it. By this time I was so riled up and confused I actually did it. He kept me on my phone the whole time, told me to keep the phone in my pocket and not talk to anybody in the store. It started smelling fishy here. Got back to the car and read him the codes. He then said he got 20 hackers removed and lowered the limit by $6800 an to do the rest I would need to by more cards. Went back in the get two more and my CC was blocked. Back in the car on the phone with him and the wife called, she got a call from the CC company that they detected a fraud and deactivated the card. Hung up of the guy after a few choice words, he called back four times before I got rid of him. I'm embarrassed to admit I fell for it, but these AHs are good at what they do.

Scammers were applying for nnalert benefits for people in prison. 3 scammers are beings prosecuted. How many have got away with it?

My CPA said he needed a copy of my driver's license. Said it was government attempt to cut down on scammers.

Scammers are harvesting personal information off social media. Some are posting nnalert vaccination card. Not a good idea.

Wish scammers were unemployed, locked up in jail.
George

My wife and a number of her coworkers at Pfizer got a letter from Kansas DOL stating her unemployment benefits was approved and she and the others were still working. Called the fraud line at KDOL. Then she was told to call social security and a US gov hotline for that stuff which as a pain. Also told to call her credit bureau and had a temporary hold put on all of her cards. Pfizer wouldn't own up to it but the security breach had to come from a hack of their records.

That is quite common in KS. Many unemployment applications are fraudulent so the state says they may start to try to verify before they pay. A lot of us thought they already did that.

Thieves just open a bank account and get the money there. Most folks here do not find out until something has gone wrong that will cost them.

Similiar thing happened to me a few weeks ago. HR Director came to me because he received notification from the Virginia Employment Commission that I was laid off and requesting unemployment. Someone has my SSN and has applied. Happened to four others at my company. We were told to file a police report and to also contact one of the three credit agency's and file a fraud alert so we will be notified if someone applies for credit. The HR director also notified the VEC this was a fraudulent claim.

I can't believe anyone falls for these scams
your see warning on the TV and the news everyday.
I do not feel sorry for anyone that falls for this