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FL: Citizens Property Insurance didn’t get its mail, warns of fraud

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Dissent

Jeff Harrington reports:

Someone filled out a change-of-address form for Citizens Property Insurance. But it wasn’t Citizens.

Now the state-run insurer is warning policyholders that mail sent to its headquarters in late June, including payment checks, may have been fraudulently misdirected to a Hialeah apartment.

The insurer of last resort, which has more than 1 million policyholders, said U.S. Postal Service investigators and other agencies are working to figure out the scope of the fraud.

Read more on TampaBay.com


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