Postal Service Agents Will Trawl Facebook, Dating Sites to Root Out Fraud

Nextgov: A dishonest Postal Service employee, citing a bad back, says she can’t lift a thing, files for workers’ compensation, collects a paycheck and stays home from work. A simple visit to her Facebook page, however, shows the purportedly injured employee lifting weights at a bodybuilding competition.

That hypothetical situation comes from USPS Inspector General spokeswoman Agapi Doulaveris. She says it shows the value of social media as a source of information for the U.S. Postal Service’s Office of the Inspector General and its law enforcement agents, who investigate employee fraud and misconduct.

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