I have not paid attention
@GardenGerty (169530)
United States
January 19, 2021 5:31am CST
All year our payroll department has issued warnings that there are false unemployment claims being filed against some of our accounts.
I have read the warnings. I have read the process Patty the paycheck lady has set up for us to follow to report this criminal activity. I have not really let it soak in.
Evidently she recently sent me a specific warning. I just skimmed over it, thinking it was a general warning, a "just in case". Well, I looked at the e mail again because I was deleting e mails from my work e mail, and it looks like it is specific to me.
So I get to report this, and get a police case number.
I will do that immediately after breakfast.
Good morning, myLot land. I am definitely not unemployed, so I will take care of this today.
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@GardenGerty (169530)
• United States
20 Jan 21
I reread my job e mails more than once before deleting them.
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@LadyDuck (502653)
• Italy
20 Jan 21
@GardenGerty I save important emails so that I can go back and, if needed, to prove what I received.
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@kaylachan (84834)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
19 Jan 21
I am glad to hear you aren't and that you're on top of it.Good thing you had decided to re-read the e-mail.
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@GardenGerty (169530)
• United States
20 Jan 21
I tend to reread e mails before I delete them.
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@kaylachan (84834)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
20 Jan 21
Which is a good pratice.@GardenGerty
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@BarBaraPrz (51837)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
19 Jan 21
So, someone claiming to be you has filed for unemployment benefits? The noive!
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@GardenGerty (169530)
• United States
20 Jan 21
It seems to be really common right now. I think these are amateurs, as everyone seems to know about them.
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@GardenGerty (169530)
• United States
20 Jan 21
It looked a lot like something else I had received lately.
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@BelleStarr (61463)
• United States
19 Jan 21
Some people are just rotten and I hope they get caught and prosecuted.
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@GardenGerty (169530)
• United States
20 Jan 21
Evidently there is a lot of this going on, but when the claim is sent to the employer it comes to a stop.
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@BelleStarr (61463)
• United States
20 Jan 21
@GardenGerty doesn’t make it an less appalling
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@GardenGerty (169530)
• United States
22 Jan 21
@BelleStarr Nope. No one needs extra stress, any time.
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@GardenGerty (169530)
• United States
20 Jan 21
It was very similar to some others that have been sent out lately.
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@wolfgirl569 (135910)
• Marion, Ohio
19 Jan 21
There has been a lot of it going on since they started giving the extra money
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@GardenGerty (169530)
• United States
20 Jan 21
Yes, being unemployed has become quite lucrative.
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@GardenGerty (169530)
• United States
22 Jan 21
@wolfgirl569 Not much chance of me getting laid off.
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@wolfgirl569 (135910)
• Marion, Ohio
20 Jan 21
@GardenGerty I kind of wish I had had a job somewhere that laid me off. That 600 a week extra would have been extremely nice.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
19 Jan 21
oh dear! i swear i dunno what possesses folks to lie their way 'nto what aint theirs. hopefully such'll get resolved, them punished 'n made to pay back those funds. 
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@GardenGerty (169530)
• United States
20 Jan 21
Well, since the scam was detected they did not get any money. I guess it has happened to a lot of people lately.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
20 Jan 21
@GardenGerty glad they got nothin' fer their 'fforts, but still hope they're prosecuted to the fullest 'xtent 'f the law. dang 'em...
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@GardenGerty (169530)
• United States
22 Jan 21
Yes, I had to read it a second time to really believe it was for me.
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good for you
@GardenGerty (169530)
• United States
20 Jan 21
Patty the payroll lady made it very easy to report.
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@GardenGerty (169530)
• United States
22 Jan 21
I think she had notified the Department of Labor and I did as well.
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@GardenGerty (169530)
• United States
20 Jan 21
I know. It has not shown up on any of my other alerts, though, so that is good.
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@GardenGerty (169530)
• United States
20 Jan 21
Yes, I reported it and so did my employer.
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@GardenGerty (169530)
• United States
20 Jan 21
I really do not know. They did not even issue me a case number. Hmmm. At least not yet. It may be a ring of perpetrators, because they have been getting these false claims on lots of people this year.
