from 1-800-777-2578
I just received a robocall from the above # alerting me my SS# was compromised and to press#1 to speak to a legal rep etc.
I have credit monitoring / dark web monitoring etc., so I would expect an alert from them if this were true. I will check. If you receive a simiar cll - do not follow the instruction on the robocall, hang up and do your own check.
The # seems to originate somewhere overseas.
As a general rule, I don’t pick up calls from unknown numbers. I let the call go into voicemail. If the caller is legitimate and if the issue is important, (s)he will leave a message.
If there is no message left, the number will go to “blocked” list.
I had a whole series of these SS calls for nearly a month straight. Kept blocking the number and they’d call from a different one. I also don’t pick up anymore.
The SSA will NEVER call you without you calling them first and asking to be called. IRS will NEVER call you unless you are working on a matter with them.
Get NomoRobo. It blocks spam calls and has been a godsend for me and especially my elderly dad. Free from xfinity and other providers.
The phone will ring one time and then cut off if it is a spam call. Won’t catch everything but very close.
Nomorobo works for me too. One ring and it stops the call
Love Nomorobo. Our phone must have rung (only one ring at a time) ten times the other day. So glad I can ignore those calls.
Thanks for the Nomorobo tip; I rarely answer the phone, and when I did, I had to get the scam!
There are several websites that list that # as a scam. Several people have shared their experience talking to the caller. Scam for sure.
I like your avatar, @JustaMom.
Bringing this up because, well, I got 3 of these robo-scam-calls today. I also completed my online application for Social Security last night. Coincidence? Possibly, but isn’t it also possible that the scammers can buy data from Google and identify people who are applying for benefits? What does Google know (or care)? It could be somebody with a legitimate marketing need for the data. As for the scammers, it would certainly increase their hit ratio dramatically if they could robocall people who had just applied for benefits online. My wife did a few weeks ago and actually got a phone call from SSA (a legit phone call) asking her for additional information.
I think it’s coincidence. Both H and I just received voice mail on our cell phones from this scam, so it looks like it’s just the season. Neither of us have been doing anything with SS applications. What made me laugh when I listened to the messages was the idea that they “suspended” my SS number.