If you could make six figures without working very hard, would you be interested in the job? (I’m sure you’d be intrigued at first, then suspicious, right?) According to an article posted on 13newsnow.com, a former Social Security Administration employee used her position to conduct a scam that siphoned off nearly $100,000 in benefits from SSA beneficiary accounts. (With a few clicks, she became quite wealthy in a very short period of time.)
According to court documents, the former SSA service representative had computer access to beneficiary information while employed at a district office in Norfolk, Virginia. She used her access privileges to redirect benefit payment funds onto prepaid reloadable debit card accounts, which were opened in the name of a deceased family member. (With just a click here and a click there, the fraudster was able to divert $97,000.)
Apparently, the 35-year-old fraudster clicked one too many times and was ultimately sentenced to 15 months in prison for wire fraud. She was also ordered to pay $97,584.94 in restitution and will serve three years of supervised release.
The common modus operandi for fraudsters is to seek out easy money, then collect as much as possible as quickly as possible. This case just goes to show that easy money usually leads to hard time.
The post Easy Money = Hard Time appeared first on Fraud of the Day.