GA., SC SNAP advantages that are designed by international lobon crime rings

Atlanta, GA. – Since fraudsters continue to steal hundreds of millions of taxpayers from electronic grocery capacity cards, federal authorities combine fraud with international crime rings.

On May 1, the US Ministry of Agriculture, Secret Service and Department of Homeland Security carried out a spiked operation on EBT-Skimming at more than 100 locations in Los Angeles, in which they made 10 arrests and confiscated “high-quality evidence”.

The fraudsters take services directly from additional accounts for nutritional help programs and it is a problem that many recipients of Georgia and South Carolina are plagued.

It is still indefinite how fraudsters receive the personal identification numbers of EBT recipients for cards.

However, the meal money for many families for the month disappears within minutes after depositing their cards. The transactions in several conditions often take place in less than two minutes.

Many of the shops in which these fraudulent transactions are supposedly take place are not in the approved retailer database of the USDA, but the transactions are still being carried out.

While the USDA did not respond to inquiries about comments, a press release was published in May in May and confirmed that criminal “clones of sales points” are.

“The latest investigations show that international criminal organizations are heavily involved and benefit from SNAP fraud,” said the department.

Criminals stolen around 350 million US dollars last year alone. The data provided by the USDA show a drastic increase in the latest EBT fraud across the country in the last quarter of 2024 with an increase of 350% compared to the first quarter.

The USDA will also no longer reimburse funds on December 20, 2024 if federal financing was assigned to terminate the problem.

In an explanation, Sean Curran, director of Secret Service ::

“Protecting the most endangered communities in our nation is a responsibility that we take very seriously, and I'm passionate,” said Curran.

What you can do

If you see or hear from fraud, you can report it anonymously in different ways:

• Contact: Your state.
• Call: 800-424-9121 or 2020690-1202 (TDD)
• Write: USDA Office of Inspector General, Postfach 23399, Washington, DC 20026-3399
• ReportTo the USDA online.

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