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  • There’s a history of bad actors scamming workers during national crises

    Jan 11, 2021 11:30 am by Chicago TribuneIllinois in the News
    Tracy Syslo, an HR representative, is one of more than 350,000 Illinois residents whose personal identities were used in fraudulent unemployment claims in recent months. (Brian OMahoney / Pioneer Press

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    Chicago Tribune (Jan. 10) '...with the unemployment fraud, (scammers are) clogging up the system and creating additional work for the state,' says Robert Bruno, director of the Labor Education Program at Illinois. 

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