Man impersonated Illinois state employee, offered fake jobs: prosecutors

A man has been charged with posing as a state employee and scamming Cook County residents of their money by promising phony government jobs.

Hugo Torres, 44, of Berwyn, used gas stations as the setting to approach at least seven different people and claim he was a supervisor with the Illinois Secretary of State’s office, according to Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s office.

“This brazen fraud stripped people of money and highly personal information,” Madigan said.

Torres identified himself by a false name and said his office was seeking to hire maintenance workers, the attorney general’s office said. He charged $150 in cash for fake job application fees and job exams.

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