INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Department of Workforce Development is issuing a fraud alert to notify those who have filed for unemployment insurance benefits in 2020 that they need to protect their personal information from potential scammers.
The scammers are sending emails using the names of companies or individuals familiar to claimants. They use familiar icons, folder names and programs to trick claimants into providing their personal information to them.
Links in the emails send victims to a web page that looks like a Microsoft SharePoint website. It further requires the user to sign in using a Google, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo! or other user account, and obtains their username and password.
The department of workforce development does not require claimants to use a secondary account to sign into its online filing system (Uplink).
To report an allegation of fraud involving unemployment, visit Unemployment.IN.gov and click on “Report Unemployment Fraud.”
