Yesterday , I received an email from SSA. stating that I had to answer the email to get the 2,000. I immediatedly

[debm55]

deleted without opening. Warning to all, SSA does NOT send phone emails. Be careful.

[MineralMan]

1. Smart. If you have questions, visit SSA.GOV.

If you don't have an account there, make one.

[gab13by13]

2. If when you set up your new

Social Security log in procedure you agreed to be sent texts from SSA then one may get legitimate texts from SSA.

The better procedure is to not click on the text but log in to your SSA account to see if you have a legitimate notice.

[debm55]

4. I have an account at the SSA. I will check. Thank you.gab13by13

[yardwork]

8. That's exactly right.

If you get a call or text or email from somebody claiming to be from Medicare, Social Security, the IRS, your state's Dept of Transportation claiming you owe a toll, or ANYTHING like that - don't click any links, don't respond, don't give any information.

Instead, go immediately to your account via your own link and check if it's ok.

I get calls all the time from someone asking if I received my new Medicare card and they'll look up my account to confirm all is well if I give them my account number. I say "thanks, I'll check my account" and they hang up.

[h2ebits]

11. I won't recommend opening an account at SSA

They have changed the set up very recently I guess. I had an old account at SSA with my own personal password, etc. They changed that so I needed to sign up again. I attempted to do that last week and the final step was that I had to give them permission to access my records, all across the system. I will not do that. I'd like to hear from other people if that is the same thing that they got when they needed to sign up? Thanks.

[erronis]

14. I had the same problem. They apparently have switched to login.gov or id.me.

I have lots of privacy controls on in my browser (Firefox) and it wouldn't let me set up one of those accounts. I do remember it asking for a lot of additional information. I haven't pursued any further for now.

[h2ebits]

33. Thanks for your response

I also use Firefox.

[MineralMan]

16. Nothing like that for me. I use login.gov when prompted by ssa.gov

Works fine and I can get right in. There's another alternative, but I never used it. The idea is to have a second check that it is you signing on. A bit more safety, I guess.

[yellow dahlia]

25. I am paying attention to everything happening at the SSA.

Thanks for sharing this. It is such a shit show, and something we can no longer trust, since DOGE and Musk and the regime have taken over.

[DownriverDem]

31. My husband can't get an account

When he tried to set it up they said they couldn't verify him. This was a few years ago. When he had a phone conference with SSA they couldn't do it either. He gets communications in the mail from SSA.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

3. I myself don't receive SS, but my sister does

and she got pretty much the same email, she did what you did, she didn't open it and deleted it.

[debm55]

5. Good for her. I am the only one here on SS. as my husband was a Federal employee who opted out of SS and stayed with the

old plan

[Historic NY]

6. All SS emails are @ssa.gov if you have an account

[debm55]

7. Thank you Historic NY. I will check my SSA portal.

[SCantiGOP]

9. I got the same email

I responded, and two hours later $2,000 was deposited in my account, I got a free extended car warranty, and won a big screen TV for 85 cents on Deal Dash.

[debm55]

12. You are silly. Trump and his SSA aren't giving shit out. Though I did get 37 more for my COLA.

[Ritabert]

26. Exactly! I'm not holding my breath for any rebates.

What happened to our DOGE checks?

[debm55]

28. I never got mine either. Like I was really going to get it.

[Ritabert]

32. Let's say I didn't get my hopes up.

[Wonder Why]

24. That's nothing. You got scammed. I got a $1M deposited in my account from the widow of the Nigerian prince.

She wanted my account number so I gave her my account at the Trump National Bank and Scam Crypto Company.

[eallen]

10. Keep in mind that internet domains in emails easily are faked

Anyone can write an email that says it comes from ssa.gov. It's easy to embed links that look like they go to ssa.gov, but take you to some scammer's web page.

If you want to go to ssa.gov, 1) use your known browser, 2) on a computer you maintain and keep virus free, 3) typing the domain in by hand. Same for your bank. Same for your brokerage.

Never, ever go to those sites through a link in email.

[debm55]

13. Thank you. eallen.

[OldBaldy1701E]

23. Wise words that I hope everyone here reads!

I would add that anything is easily faked on the internet. Go check things out before you click on anything or give a yes to anything that appears in your emails, or your social media, or any of it.

I know it sounds like a 'Mad Max' scenario... but that is because it is.

[Mr.Bee]

15. also

Your cloud service is not full and doesn't need to be verified.
You Amazon account has not been temporarily placed on hold.
Your email inbox is not temporarily disabled.
Your Boost Mobile account has not been cancelled due to an unresolved compliance review.
You haven't won a 3 months FREE of Amazon Music Unlimited!

Comon you guys, this is getting old yesterday!

[The Madcap]

18. You are not some distant relative of a Nigerian prince.

This is not Microsoft support.
You don't need a new roof.
Etc.

[SCantiGOP]

19. Do you mean....

that I’m never going to get that $85 million the nice Nigerian Prince promised me 20
years ago?

[Xavier Breath]

39. I hear those payments can take 21 years to process.

Patience

[debm55]

29. HAHHAHAHA. Thank you Mr. Bee.

[Mr.Bee]

34. No, Thank You!

I'm inundated by these stupid things every day !!

[BidenRocks]

17. If I get a message from SSA

It is telling me to log in and check my messages.
Same log in as the VA. ID Me.

[debm55]

20. Thank you. BidenRocks.

[Dave Id]

21. Fake e-mails from SSA

Elon's DOGE boys searching for retirerees to scam?

[debm55]

22. That's what I thought. Thank you Dave Id.

[Warpy]

27. They'll be back. Forward it to the FBI next time. Please.

The amount of "rip off the old people" scams keeps increasing with my every birthday. I want all those assholes thrown into prison until they're my age, then they can be let out so they'll be the ones getting scammed by punks.

Honestly, the shit that goes on today makes me wish they were still at the level of that old bastard in Mississippi who sent out all the Nigerian prince scam emails in the 90s.

[debm55]

30. Thank you . Warpy , I agree with you.

[Farmer-Rick]

35. I got a letter from social security too

Mine said that pedo Trump increased my Social Security but then also increased my copay for Medicare, which I never use. So, I actually make less now than before I got the COLA.

Fun times ahead.

[chowmama]

36. We frequently get texts from SSA

They only tell us to check our messages on the official website. If they said anything else, I'd know there was something off about it.

[Raftergirl]

37. I just got a text from SSA telling me to check my messages.

I logged in, checked messages and the newest was the form for 2025 taxes withheld.

[valleyrogue]

38. Scam. The Social Security Administration does not operate this way.

ALL correspondence will be either on the website through your account or through paper notifications. The only emails you should ever get would link to your login at the SSA website.