Sarah Chaney Cambon

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542 appearances 17 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2017 last heard Feb 2023

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WSJ Your Money Briefing · New $300 Unemployment Benefits: How Long Would They Last? · 13 Aug 2020 podcast

I think that I'd be really interested to hear what states like Florida are thinking about matched

Thanks so much for having me, JR. matched

WSJ Your Money Briefing · Unemployment Fraud Rises as Claims Hit Record Levels · 4 Jun 2020 podcast

There are fraudsters and they go into the dark web and collect information on people, personal information like, you know, social security numbers. matched

They use bots to penetrate the state's unemployment application website and then they are approved for a bank card. matched

It's unclear exactly how much money has been paid out. matched

What we do know is that on Monday, the inspector general to the U.S. matched

Labor Department said that at least $26 billion in unemployment payments could be wasted during the pandemic. matched

He said a large portion of that was attributable to fraud. matched

A good bit of the fraud appears to be due to identity theft. matched

So Oklahoma is an interesting example. matched

I spoke with a state official there that explained what was going on. matched

He said that the state detected identity fraud and how that worked was basically there are fraudsters and they go into the dark web and collect information on people. matched

personal information like, you know, social security numbers. matched

They use bots to penetrate the state's unemployment application website. matched

And then they are approved for a bank card. matched

And then the fraudsters would siphon that money outside of Oklahoma and matched

And to address this, Oklahoma put in what's basically a standard anti-bot measure. matched

A lot of people have probably encountered one of these before, that it just requires applicants for unemployment benefits to verify that they are not a robot. matched

Some of it is just due to the fact that there has been a huge surge in unemployment claims. matched

Claims had totaled more than 40 million since mid-March when the pandemic led to widespread business closures and a lot of people were laid off. matched

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