Is This A New Phone Scam???

tsavorite · ‎03-09-2010

Today I have received 2 phone calls from a 800# (I never answer any call I don't know who it is) so it went to voicemail and then a recorded message (computer generated voice) saying it is the Social Security Office calling to let me know my SS# has been suspended ....suspicious activity and if I want to know about it then press #1. Guess that would have taken me to a actual human being running this scam if I had answered the phone call.

ANyone else getting these??

MalteseMomma · ‎03-09-2010

Yes,SS will NEVER call you.

x Hedge · ‎08-18-2016

Don't answer and don't press #1.

DO read the social security scam awareness:

https://oig.ssa.gov/newsroom/scam-awareness

Q&A

Can Social Security number be suspended?

Scammers are saying your Social Security number (SSN) has been suspendedbecause of suspicious activity, or because it's been involved in a crime. ... Oh, and your caller ID often shows the real SSA phone number (1-800-772-1213) when these scammers call – but they're faking that number. It's not the real SSAcalling.Dec 27, 2018

tsavorite · ‎03-09-2010

Just did some googling and from what came up this scam has been going on in different states for awhile now! Like I said I never answer and wouldn't press any# to talk to anyone.....this just ticks me off though!!

SilleeMee · ‎05-22-2016

Official business matters are given in writing and handled through your mailbox, not through your phone.

ILTH · ‎05-18-2015

@MalteseMomma wrote:
Yes,SS will NEVER call you.

That's not true.

They call to verify information, if they have questions, when you apply for SS.

I didn't answer when SS called me. After I listened to the voicemail, I googled the phone number they left for me to call back. It was legitimate. I called them back.

What OP experienced sounds very much like a scam, though.

ILTH · ‎05-18-2015

@SilleeMee wrote:
Official business matters are given in writing and handled through your mailbox, not through your phone.

Not always true.

See my other response.

bonnielu · ‎03-11-2010

Only in writing. Don't answer and if you do don't press anything.

I will add sometimes I am curious. When the phone rings I pick up and say nothing. Their robo device detects voices. I just wait and they hang up.

Annoying and no doubt nothing we can do. Seems the carriers should do something. Very little I am afraid.

KailaS · ‎03-09-2010

This scam has been going on for a while. Do not call number given. In my part of PA for a while we received calls that our SS# had been used fraudulently and to call a number to straighten it out. That was/is also a scam.

SunValley · ‎04-19-2010

SS will call you but only if you call them to set up a time. I have done this twice and the call was always at the time specified. Any unsolicited call is a scam.