WARNING: I just got a phony phone call from someone pretending to be social security (55, federal)
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Just wanted to make everyone aware that I got a fraudulent call from some scammers about an hour ago. what makes this scary is that I told him I needed confirmation that this was indeed the ssa because my understanding was that government agencies do not call you.
Anyway he took me through some very convincing steps to supposedly convince me. wow, I can see how someone would be fooled.
Anyhoo, he told me that my social security number had been involved in a investigation involving money Laundering connected with a cocaine bust in New mexico and it was now "suspended".
I basically told him I still did not trust the phone call, told him again that it was my understanding that no federal government agency will call you, I asked him to hold on because I was going to record it. as soon as I said that the line went dead.
Anyway I will say it was scary because the phone number showed on my caller I.D. as coming from the SSA office in Maryland and he sent out an email with a link to the ssa page.
Scammers are getting high tech guys, just be on your toes.
Yes, I got a call like this a couple of days ago. These social security and IRS scams have been going on for years. Just hang up.
These scam work often because what they want is you to do is give them the last 4 digits of your ss number to confirm your identity ..people don’t realize how many financial accesses only require the last 4 digits of an ss number to gain access
These scam work often because what they want is you to give them the last 4 digits of your ss number to confirm your identity ..people don’t realize how many financial accesses only require the last 4 digits of an ss number to gain access
Just wanted to make everyone aware that I got a fraudulent call from some scammers about an hour ago. what makes this scary is that I told him I needed confirmation that this was indeed the ssa because my understanding was that government agencies do not call you.
Anyway he took me through some very convincing steps to supposedly convince me. wow, I can see how someone would be fooled.
Anyhoo, he told me that my social security number had been involved in a investigation involving money Laundering connected with a cocaine bust in New mexico and it was now "suspended".
I basically told him I still did not trust the phone call, told him again that it was my understanding that no federal government agency will call you, I asked him to hold on because I was going to record it. as soon as I said that the line went dead.
Anyway I will say it was scary because the phone number showed on my caller I.D. as coming from the SSA office in Maryland and he sent out an email with a link to the ssa page.
Scammers are getting high tech guys, just be on your toes.
Are you saying that the scammer called you and you gave him your email address so that he could send you an email? Why would you do that?
I would have challenged the caller to tell me what my SS number is as proof that he already has it. After all, if he is alleging that my SS# was used in some phony scheme, then he must know what the number is. Even if he could tell me my SS#, I wouldn't give him any information, but I probably would make a separate call to the SS office to verify if what the caller was telling me was true.
If the scammers want my Social Security Number, they are welcome to it. In fact, I'll just post it here! It's 123-45-6789.
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