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Coronavirus Payments To Poor Are Vulnerable To Fraud

By Tim Mak
Published April 27, 2020 at 1:07 PM MDT
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The IRS system for distributing Coronavirus relief payments is susceptible to fraud, because the payments of some Americans can be obtained with information easily available to criminals online.

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Tim Mak
Tim Mak is NPR's Washington Investigative Correspondent, focused on political enterprise journalism.
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