This week is National Consumer Protection Week and Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt has put out a series on the Top Five Scams reported in Kansas in 2021.
Today we highlight Social Security Scams. These scams are a twist on the Government Imposter Scam involving a robocall claiming to be from the Social Security Administration informing you that your benefits are about to end, if you don’t take action. Rest assured! The real Social Security Administration will never call you to cut off your benefits and will never ask you to wire money, make payments via gift card or send cash payments, in order to continue our benefits.
If you receive one of these calls, hang up! Do not “press 1”, or any other number the robocall asks you to press. Just hang up! Like with all robocall scams, these scammers are after information. If you press anything on your phone, that lets the scammer know they have reached a working number and you’ll receive more calls. The best advice on this, or any other robocall scam is, do not answer calls from numbers you do not know. If you do answer, once you know it’s not someone you know, just hang up.
