128fraudulent unclaimed-property claims filed under a fake identity, all of them blocked
A Tennessee woman was sentenced to two years and five months in prison for filing 128 false claims worth $398,537 against California's unclaimed-property fund using a fabricated identity.
The state's Unclaimed Property Division flagged every one of Marilyn Cook's claims as fraudulent and dispersed nothing. She had used a fabricated Tennessee ID and a forged Department of Justice letter to support them.
Source: US Department of Justice, Eastern District of California. Read more: unclaimed property scam · case file