After months of uncertainty during the pandemic, more people are now making those big summer vacation plans they've been waiting on. It's exciting, but if you're planning on staying in a vacation rental News 5 has a warning about how fraudsters are looking to take advantage of you.
Last year was one of Bonnie Kentâs most successful ever working as a Realtor in Colorado Springs â so when she found a letter in her mailbox in December notifying her that state unemployment benefits had been approved under her name, the irony wasnât lost on her.
âThe form came to me at my current address under my maiden name,â she told the
Business Journal. âI havenât used my maiden name since 1999.â
Now, two decades later, a fraudster appears to have used Kentâs old surname, along with other personal information, to file a fraudulent unemployment insurance claim through the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment.