A woman who was recently convicted of helping to lead a massive
identity theft ring was also able to work the system so that she received unemployment benefit checks while serving time.
Tracey Nelson, who stole a large number of identities from her former employer and provided them to a 55-member fraud ring, was recently caught receiving unemployment checks from the state of New York, according to a report from the
New York Daily News. The reason for this, according to her attorney, is because "technically she was unemployed."
Nelson's original crimes led to the theft of more than $2 million thanks to ID fraud, that targeted a charity, banks and a car dealership, the report said. Her unemployment payments came both prior to and after she went to jail for the crimes.
Adam Levin, the chairman for IDentity Theft 911, has a regular blog about the ways identity theft can affect consumers, and how they can do more to protect themselves from this type of crime.
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