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THE FOLLOWING ARE SCAM CALLS: BEWARE

SCAMMERS ARE TRYING TO STEAL YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION.

THE FOLLOWING ARE ALL SCAM CALLS:  GUARANTEED.

 

1.  Your Social Security number has been involved in some suspicious or criminal activity.  It is important that we speak to you....

2.  Your Social Security card/account/check is being suspended because of suspicious activity.  Please call us.....

3.  This is the Social Security Administration, calling to inform you that you may be eligible for a larger benefit.  It is important that we speak to you.......

4.  We need to speak to you to confirm you Social Security number and other information.  Please call us.....

5.  We are calling to confirm important information so that your Social Security benefits will not be interrupted.....

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The "real" Social Security Administration never makes this type of call.  They do not use automatic "robo" dialers to make calls.  These are always scams, fishing for personal information such as your Social Security number, birthdate, address, or bank information.

Remember, Social Security already knows your Social Security number.  In fact, they know more about you than your children know. Unless you have some current matter going on at Social Security, such as a new claim, they will not call you.

If you have any reason to speak to Social Security, then look up their legitimate telephone number and initiate the call yourself. Do not return calls to numbers left on your answering service, even if it seems to be a real number for the Social Security office.  Scammers have ways to fake telephone numbers to look like real numbers.

Most of these scam calls originate from foreign countries. The only way to protect yourself is to hang up immediately without giving any personal identifying information about yourself.  Just hang up.

  

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