The Integrity Unit offers Fraud Watch as an information source for claimants, employees, and employers who have experienced or witnessed unemployment fraud and identity theft. Criminals have sophisticated ways to steal your information—text and email scams, through social media, and by breaching retail and commercial systems that have personal identifiers like your birth date, Social Security Number, and other details. Many people don’t realize they are a victim of ID theft until they start getting notices about accounts being set up in their name; in some cases, that notification may be from the Connecticut Department of Labor in the form of a monetary determination letter or a 1099G tax form.