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Financial Crime-Fighters Turning The Tide Of COVID-Era Fraud

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Fraudsters perpetrating such schemes often target individuals by phone, posing as bank officials, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents or public health administrators and asking for personal information or money in exchange for COVID-19 test kits, stimulus checks or work-from-home jobs.

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What We’ve Learned Watching Uncle Sam Disburse $2T In Stimulus Payments

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Instead, said Edwards, they handed it off to the dual purviews of the IRS and the Bureau of the Fiscal Service. “By By law, [payments] like these are set up around a checks and balances system so that the IRS authorizes the payments and the Bureau of Fiscal Service distributes them.