In June, the FBI got a warrant to hunt through the Google accounts of Abedemi Refai, a Nigerian state government official. What they found, they said in a sworn affidavit, was all the ingredients for a “massive” cyberfraud on U.S. government benefits: stolen bank, credit card and tax information of Americans. Money transfers and emails showing dozens of false unemployment claims in seven states that paid out $350,000.
Russian mobsters, Chinese hackers and Nigerian scammers have used stolen identities to plunder tens of billions of dollars in Covid benefits, spiriting the money overseas in a massive transfer of wealth from U.S. taxpayers, officials and experts say. And they say it is still happening.
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