Adirondack Daily Enterprise
A woman from Saranac Lake received a letter from the state Department of Labor telling her she had unemployment insurance money to collect — and then another and another. All of them looked very official.
The woman, whom the Enterprise is not naming to protect her from retribution, said the phone numbers, postage and Key Bank debit card she got all seemed legitimate. But the letters inside telling her she had unemployment insurance to collect did not make any sense. She’s retired.
“I thought, ‘Maybe New York state is really losing it,'” she said. The letters were persistent, and some required more personal information, like her full Social Security number. She was “panicked” and worried how fraudsters got her information.