FTC social media outreach spotlights SSA impostors

Washington, D.C. (March 19, 2019) -- Student loan and tax fraud were two scams addressed by the Federal Trade Commission in its social media outreach during National Consumer Protection Week in early March. But a major increase in calls by impostors pretending to be with the Social Security Administration and seeking personal identification information warranted the extra effort of a webcast....

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