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Unemployment scam drains $10M


Last year was one of Bonnie Kent’s most successful ever working as a Realtor in Colorado Springs — 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 wasn’t lost on her.
“The form came to me at my current address under my maiden name,” she told the
Business Journal. “I haven’t used my maiden name since 1999.”
Now, two decades later, a fraudster appears to have used Kent’s old surname, along with other personal information, to file a fraudulent unemployment insurance claim through the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. ....

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