- A New York man would have used the identity of 250 people to steal more than 1.4 million
- COVID-19 Support Check Fraud Increasingly ‘Attracts’ More Alarm Situations
- Recently, a family was massacred by a man who demanded part of the check
Telemundo and the newspaper New York Post reported on a man named Elvin Germán, a native of New York, who is accused of allegedly stealing the identities of more than 25 people to commit a fraud with support checks for the coronavirus.
According to reports, Elvin Germán’s objective would be to steal more than 1.4 million from the New York Department of Labor as part of the benefits of checks that are given for unemployment due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to information from Audrey Strauss , US Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
New York Man Tried to Fraud COVID-19 Support Checks
The big mistake of the man from New York, 41-year-old Elvin Germán, was that when he stole the identities of the more than 250 people it occurred to him to make their requests for support using the same name in several of them in response to security, neither more nor less than the family dog named Benji.
Elvin Germán was arrested on Tuesday in ‘The Bronx’ and now faces charges of electronic fraud, aggravated identity theft, so the man from New York, with his fraud by coronavirus checks, would have a sentence of more than 20 years in prison if convicted after trial.
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The man from New York was ‘caught’ in the least expected way
According to reports from the New York Prosecutor, the investigators of the case surprised the alleged fraud of the checks by Elvin Germán, by detecting the same pattern in his scam, because the man used the same IP address for the requests and also the same response security: Benji, his dog.
The above was implemented to submit requests illegally on the DOL website. The Department of Defense and the Secret Service was in charge of detecting the fraud that Elvin Germán tried to do to collect the money from the checks as part of the stimulus for the coronavirus.
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Elvin Germán wanted to do check fraud in New York
In addition to the above, it was reported that the man from New York would have carried out this scam for almost a year, since there is a record that from May 2020 to March 2021, Elvin Germán would have carried out a plan to fraud with checks for the issue of unemployment.
Elvin Germán devised the plan to submit and verify requests illegally by making them with the names and insurance numbers of more than 250 people, who naturally would not receive such support due to coronavirus, until it was detected that the data carried the same IP address.
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New York man check fraud
The period in which Elvin Germán verified and sent the applications was also suspicious according to what was published by Telemundo, since the man from New York tried to do the fraud with the checks weekly, in addition to using the same IP address.
It seems that ‘Benji’, the family dog, ‘played’ Elvin Germán crooked, as he considered him for the same questions and answers of all the requests to commit check fraud, which made it easier for the man to be discovered and now arrested.
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Attempted check fraud was not the only thing
At the time of Elvin Germán’s arrest, $ 7,000 in cash was found, as well as a laptop with the page of applications for unemployment benefits as well as the names of people who would be his victims; The New York man’s residence was found by IP address.
The alleged fraud of the checks on the part of the man from New York, Elvin Germán, has not been the only alarm situation that has generated controversy in the United States due to the delivery of the stimulus, because in recent days, a massacre took place thanks to the theme within a family.
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More controversy over the delivery of support
Just a few days ago, a man named Malik Halacre confronted the mother of his 6-month-old daughter to hand over half of the $ 1,400 he received as part of the support check, however, having a refusal from the woman, decided to draw a gun.
It all happened in Indianapolis, when the 25-year-old man arrived where his ex-wife was with her 6-month-old daughter, in addition to three other people, including a 7-year-old boy who he shot mercilessly out of anger. of receiving a refusal to give you half the money.
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The delivery of the checks has also unleashed tragedies
The man committed the massacre for the money from the checks and also dared to take his 6-month-old daughter, without imagining that the ex-woman had managed to escape wounded to ask for help and survive the attack, who was the one who gave everything the information for the capture of the 25-year-old man.
As if that were not enough, the woman named Jeanettrius Moore moved locals and strangers by the tragedy, for which a support account was opened for the funeral expenses of her three dead relatives, which in this report has reached the amount of 36 thousand dollars.
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Another man ‘freaked out’ over the check and did the unthinkable
As well as the issue of Elvin Germán with check fraud and the terrible massacre of the family of Jeanettrius Moore who survived the shooting of his ex-partner by denying him half the money for the support, weeks ago a controversial case was presented that it ended in tragedy and arrest.
In recent days, Mundo Hispánico gave an account of how a 38-year-old man would have attacked former President Donald Trump and the Mar-a-Lago resort where he currently lives, throwing a bomb in retaliation for not receiving the new stimulus check .
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The cases for the delivery of the economic stimulus have ‘bad’ to several people
As previously reported, the 38-year-old military veteran’s name is Paul Brantly Rawls, who is a resident of West Palm Beach, South Florida, so he decided to go drop a bomb on Donald Trump’s resort and now faces charges of misconduct, possessing, performing and throwing a destructive device and criminal acts.
Fortunately for the veteran, at the time of the explosion of the device, no people were injured or killed, only the noise caused two cars to suffer accidents when the drivers wanted to maneuver to avoid running into the bomb.
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Check fraud like the New York man is becoming more common.
The veteran threw from his gray car, the bomb towards Mar-a-Lago, images captured by the surveillance camera of the place, for which the license plate of the car was allowed to be traced and that led to the arrest of Paul Brantly Rawls.
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