Facebook – I’m serious!
We have a claimant who has been on long-term Incapacity Benefit for years. A doubt arose over his residency so our fraud officer starts investigating.
On a whim she types his name into facebook and lo and behold he’s there. He’s posted pictures and is bragging to his friends how he bought a classic sports car (an MGB GT), refurbished it, sold it and bought a speedboat.
He also boasted how he had bought himself a brand new top-of-the-range 4×4 and bought his wife a brand new sportscar for Xmas. All this on IB of £90 pw. 😯
The wife adds an interesting twist seeing as we didn’t know he had one! When you check her profile is obvious that she is, in fact, the person he said was his landlady. The IUC is going to be interesting. 😀
My fraud person told me that the DWP have told her that they are prosecuting a different claimant who categorically denied being in any form of relationship and that the alleged partner was just a friend. However the claimant couldn’t then explain why three years of holiday photos were on facebook, why she posted about how happy they were and how they were getting on after moving in together. 8)
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