Well, the article mentions an investigation by a US Attorney turned up a Texas death certificate from 1984. This seems to indicate there was a record of her death with the State of Texas (just waiting to be found by the SSA)!

In three minutes I found a record of her death at http://www.deathindexes.com/texas(check out the screen shot below) – and the search was free! There’s only 50 states. It sounds like the SSA could use some fraud analytics. How about setting up some “vital record” FTP feeds from the states and cross referencing it with the SSA database? They could even get fancy and throw in some data mining of social media sites (just in case the death doesn’t get reported timely but the family members tweet about it)!

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That’s not all! The article reports the other recent occurrences listed below and that CNN recently estimated $40 million in SSA benefits have been paid to dead people!

Willa Mae Shaughnesy – $231,000
Thomas Parkin – $44,000
Judy Dinsmore – $75,000
Gail Andrews – $73,000
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Total savings from an analytic initiative – $423,000……and counting. Now, how much have you paid in social security taxes this year?

Hard to believe, but your employee’s could be stealing from you and selling the goods online. In the linked story below, an employee stole $376k of his employer’s property and sold it all on the black market.
Using the ‘Advanced’ search functions of sites like http://www.ebay.com and http://www.craigslist.org, you can do some basic checking to try and get out in front of this. The screen shot below is from the ‘Advanced’ search function at http://www.ebay.com and allows you to search for specific products near you. In this way, you can potentially uncover this type of fraud.
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Do the search, you might be surprised what you find!
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In the screenshot below (from http://www.krogerforum.com – a public website) an employee confesses specific tactics used to steal while on the job. This info could certainly be used by Kroger to develop better fraud prevention policies and/or training.
The lesson: search the web for employee posts about your company. If you’ve never done this, you might be missing out on potentially valuable information to assist in your fraud prevention program.
Try this Google search: “(insert your company name here) sucks”
(Awkward I know, but it works:)
You might be surprised what topics employee’s are comfortable discussing online.
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Apparently Rewards theft at Marriott has been going on for some time. In this separate incident, a hotel manager creates 6 fake Rewards accounts and uses them to steal Rewards worth more than $100,000.

An analytical test to compare Marriot Rewards account holder names to customer names would have likely flagged these transactions much earlier.

Does your employer have a rewards program? Run some analytics, stop the abuse and be a data rock star!

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Google Search Term: Stealing Marriot Rewards