BALTIMORE, Md. - A new e-mail scam has surfaced recently. The Social Security Administration has received several reports of an e-mail message being circulated addressed to "Dear Social Security Number And Card owner" and purporting to be from the Social Security Administration. The message informs the reader "that someone illegally is using your Social Security number and assuming your identity" and directs the reader to a Web site designed to look like Social Security's Internet Web site
Once directed to the phony site the individual is asked to confirm their identity with "Social Security and bank information." Specific information about the individual's credit cad number, expiration date and PIN number is then requested.
Whether on the agency's Web site or by phone, Social Security will never ask you for your credit card information or your PIN number.
To report receipt of this e-mail message or other suspicious activity to Social Security's Office of Inspector General, call 800-269-0271 or TTY at 866-501-2101. A public fraud reporting
form also is available online at OIG's Web site www.socialsecurity.gov/oig.
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