Woman accused of using stolen Social Security number to work for Cleveland County Schools

[MichMan]

Wow, got away with it for almost 20 years.

A Shelby Middle School teacher was arrested after investigators said she used a Georgia woman’s identity to fraudulently get a job with Cleveland County Schools, officials said.

Janet Yevette Martin, 58, from Chesnee, South Carolina, was charged with multiple counts of identity theft and forgery, Shelby police said. Someone in Atlanta found out their Social Security was being used by someone else..

As a result of the investigation, warrants were issued for Martin on Sept. 22. She faced charges including two counts of identity theft, two counts of forgery of an instrument, two counts of uttering a forged instrument, and one count of obtaining property by false pretenses.

Martin was hired March 1, 2007, and is no longer an employee, the school district stated in a news release Thursday afternoon.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/woman-accused-using-stolen-social-164137388.html

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

1. Lots of people probably do this

[MichMan]

2. Hopefully not airline pilots and surgeons

Who knows if she had any teaching qualifications or even attended college at all.

[Mark.b2]

3. As much as a person has to use their SSN on for employment, paying taxes...

and numerous government interactions, you’d think something like this would get caught by the fed gov’t. If I read this right, the correct SSN holder had to bring the fraud to authorities’ attention.

VISA and Mastercard should teach feds how to find crimes like this. I get probably one call a month from Citibank fraud detection over some charge they deem suspicious.