{"id":32541,"date":"2018-02-03T21:25:43","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T02:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32541"},"modified":"2018-02-03T21:25:44","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T02:25:44","slug":"an-interesting-twist-on-identity-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32541","title":{"rendered":"An Interesting Twist On Identity Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/dailysignal.com\/2018\/02\/02\/michigan-doles-out-360-in-weekly-unemployment-to-a-german-shepherd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Signal<\/a> posted an article about $360 a week in unemployment benefits to be paid to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Michael Ryder\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Ryder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia\">Michael Ryder<\/a>, who according to the records involved\u00a0worked at a restaurant chain in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Detroit\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Detroit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia\">Detroit, Michigan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a picture of Michael Ryder:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Michael-Ryder.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32542\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Michael-Ryder.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"617\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Michael-Ryder.png 617w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Michael-Ryder-300x297.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Michael-Ryder-303x300.png 303w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 617px) 100vw, 617px\" \/><\/a>Isn&#8217;t he beautiful? However, I doubt that he worked in a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Chain store\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chain_store\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia\">chain restaurant<\/a> in Detroit. Michael is owned by lawyer Michael Haddock.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cI\u2019m not sure what he\u2019s going to do with the money,\u201d Haddock said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation-now\/2018\/02\/01\/michigan-mans-dog-approved-360-unemployment-check\/1086171001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Haddock contacted the unemployment agency<\/a>\u00a0and the restaurant to take care of the mistake. A state investigator with the unemployment agency said while Haddock received an initial claim, the system eventually flagged the claim as suspicious.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cUnfortunately, Michael Ryder\u2019s claim will not be allowed. I know firsthand it is rare for \u2018man\u2019s best friend\u2019 to contribute financially to the household and that will continue in this instance,\u201d Tim Kolar, state administrator of investigations with the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Unemployment benefits\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unemployment_benefits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia\">Unemployment Insurance<\/a> Agency, said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The agency also warned people of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Identity fraud\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Identity_fraud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia\">identity fraud<\/a>, which can occur with unemployment claims.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cIt\u2019s important to note that no money was paid out,<a class=\"media-menu-item\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-admin\/post-new.php#\">Upload Files<\/a>\u201d Talent Investment Agency spokesman Chris DeWitt said.\u00a0\u201c<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Crime\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia\">Criminals<\/a> get a hold of people\u2019s personal information like name, address, and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Social Security number\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Social_Security_number\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia\">Social Security numbers<\/a> and file\u00a0a false claim. This is a crime. \u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It would be interesting to know if the potential identity thieves had a stolen Social Security number for Michael Ryder.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday The Daily Signal posted an article about $360 a week in unemployment benefits to be paid to Michael Ryder, who according to the records involved\u00a0worked at a restaurant chain in Detroit, Michigan. This is a picture of Michael Ryder: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32541\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[339,11391,144,288,4390],"class_list":["post-32541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-detroit","tag-identity-fraud","tag-michigan","tag-social-security-number","tag-unemployment-benefits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32543,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32541\/revisions\/32543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}