The Social Security Administration will never call you! Please do not fall for this…
The Social Security Administration will never call you or threaten you with arrest. Should you get a call like this, hang up. If they leave a message like this do not respond. This is a threatening ploy to alarm you into pressing 1 or calling them back.
This is only the latest in SSA scams. We must stay alert to these scams so that we do not allow anyone from obtaining our personal information. Since the phone key number 1 was not pressed, we do not know what they were going to request to keep you from being arrested. But they would have asked for your name and Social Security number because, of course, they don’t have it. They are hoping to have you scared enough to give it to them. They may have asked for payment with a gift card of their choice, wire money to an account, or ask for your bank account number. This is why Scam Squad says, do not answer if you do not recognize the phone number, but if you do – hang up on them.