How Underground Groups Use Stolen Identities and Deepfakes
This is one of the &quot;new&quot; ways that stolen identities are used.<p>About a decade ago, there were a number of raids by Immigration on meat packing plants across the Midwestern US. What kicked the raids off was when one Hispanic woman who worked at Immigration was being dinged by the IRS for not paying some $160k in delinquent taxes. Upon investigation, it turned out that her name &amp; SSN were being used simultaneously by more than 50 different workers in the meatpacking industry.<p>Several newspapers in the Denver metro area reported on the raids. Some of the raids happened in Greeley [0]. I remember one of the papers reporting that the only signs in English in the entire plant were the emergency Exit signs over doors. Also mentioned in the papers were that a valid name &amp; SSN combination was worth about $50 if the name was Hispanic, and about $5 otherwise. Some of the name &amp; SSN combinations were used simultaneously more than 100 times, with some repeats being at the same employer simultaneously. Several of the companies raided by Immigration knew that the workers were in the country illegally but didn&#x27;t care as long as the name &amp; SSN combo made it through some verification process [1].<p>Notes: 
0 - Greeley is about 60 miles north of Denver. When the wind is &quot;right&quot;, one can smell the feedlots. Normally, when you drive out of the mountains, you can see a huge brown cloud floating over the Denver metro area. When the wind is &quot;right&quot;, you can see a sharp termination of that cloud. The chemicals in the cloud (mostly nitrates and nitrites from exhaust) react with the chemicals from the feedlots (mostly ammonia from cow urine &amp; feces) to form ammonium nitrate (frequently used in fertilizer &amp; explosives) to precipitate out of the air (leaving clear sky).<p>1 - This clip from <i>Hogan&#x27;s Heroes</i> displays the willful ignorance.  
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