PPP Detective
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Type of site | Crowdsourced fraud detection |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Founder(s) | Megan Drescher, Brian Hamachek |
| Website | https://www.pppdetective.com/ |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | No |
| Launched | April 1, 2021 |
| Current status | Active |
| Written in | .NET / C# |
PPP Detective is a United States-based website which crowdsources the detection of fraudulent loans within the United States government's Paycheck Protection Program COVID-19 relief program.[1]. The site was launched on April 1, 2021 by a software engineer named Brian Hamachek and a UX designer named Megan Drescher[2]. The site is not for profit and contains ads to offset the cost of the third-party data sources.
The website has been referenced by numerous local news outlets reporting on potential PPP fraud for their coverage area.[3]
Background
PPP Detective website was created as a response to news reports of widespread fraud within the United States government's Paycheck Protection Program COVID-19 relief program[4]. The purpose of the website is to solicit local knowledge from people across the country to help determine which loans in their local geographical area look suspect to them.[5] The idea is that people who live near the business would be best able to determine if the loan is legitimate or not.[6] The website uses the SBA's public data dumps to display loan details. To aid in the detection of fraudulent loans, the website pulls in additional third-party data sources, such as Google Street View images[7]. Users can flag loans and other users can then verify and also flag the loan[8]
Functionality
The website contains the following features:
- Up-to-date loan data from the SBA.
- Third-party data sources such as:
- Google Street View
- Google Maps
- Flag fraudulent loans
- PPP Fraud news articles[9]
See also
There are similar websites offered by the non-profits ProPublica [10] and FederalPay [11]. These websites do not focus on the detection of fraudulent loans.
References
- ↑ "Crowdsourcing Paycheck Protection Program Loan Fraud - PPP Detective". www.pppdetective.com. Retrieved 2021-05-20.
- ↑ "About This Website - PPP Detective". www.pppdetective.com. Retrieved 2021-05-20.
- ↑ Kowalick, Claire. "What Wichita County businesses got Paycheck Protection loans and who still owes money?". Times Record News. Retrieved 2022-03-07.
- ↑ Reilly, Peter J. "Paycheck Protection Fraud Is Massive And Unsurprising". Forbes. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
- ↑ "PPP fraud can be identified, tracked on website created by software engineer". FOXBusiness. 2022-02-23. Retrieved 2022-03-07.
- ↑ McKenna, Frank (10 May 2021). "PPP Detective Crowdsources PPP Fraud Detection". Retrieved 2021-08-03.
- ↑ "Website created to help expose PPP fraud". MSN. Retrieved 2022-03-07.
- ↑ "PPP fraud can be identified, tracked on website created by software engineer". FOX Business. 2022-02-23. Retrieved 2022-03-07.
- ↑ "Latest PPP Fraud News". www.pppdetective.com. Retrieved 2022-03-07.
- ↑ Willis, Moiz Syed,Derek (7 July 2020). "Tracking PPP: Search Every Company Approved for Federal Loans". ProPublica. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
- ↑ "SBA Paycheck Protection Program Data Lookup - FederalPay". www.federalpay.org. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
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