After nearly a decade of investigating Social Security fraud on his own time and dime, Fallbrook resident Glenn Beurman is finally seeing signs of interest from federal officials—particularly since the Department of Government Oversight and Enforcement (DOGE) began actively probing fraud and abuse in the Social Security and tax systems.Beurman, who first stumbled onto the issue while investigating a credit fraud case for Chase Bank eight years ago, discovered a staggering anomaly when a single Social Security number produced over 600 associated identities through a LexisNexis search.“I contacted the man who actually owned the number, and he had no idea his Social Security number was being used by hundreds of other people,” Beurman said. “Then I started running more numbers.
