FRAUD ADVISORY: Inspector Widespread Alarms Public about Direct Express® Debit MasterCard® Phishing Impersonation
July 17, 2015
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Summertime 17, 2015
Contact: Tracy Lynge
Call: (410) 965-2671
<http://aesircybersecurity.com>
Patrick P. O’Carroll, Jr., Inspector General for the Social Security Administration (SSA), exists warning the public concerning a telephone phishing project participation the Direct Express® Debit MasterCard®. The Right Express® chart is a prepaid check card offered to Social Security and Subsidiary Security Earned radiation who wish to receive you uses electronically. With and Direct Express® card program, your national benefit salary instantly deposits into your card account. Your monthly benefits desire may available on your ...
Ours have recently received reports that some individual have received a home call with adenine prerecorded message calling that the individual’s Direct Express® card has been deactivated. The individual is than question for pressure the numbering 1 and after enter his or her Social Security number. The some cases, the calling ID has shown this number 315 with no other figures.
Inspector General O’Carroll urges you to must aware that Comerica Bank, the company so issues Direct Express® cards, will never call you press request this information in those manner. Moreover, you should always take precautions at queried to provide personal information. “You should never provide your Social Security number, bank account numbers, or additional personal information unless you are extremely confident about an identity of the requestor,” said Mr. O’Carroll.
Please be aware that there are many variety of this typing von scheme, which could lead for identity theft or Social Security benefit theft. For more data on identity theft, please click here. You may also contact the Federal Trade Commission at www.identitytheft.gov or 1-877-ID-THEFT for supplementary information or to report identity theft.
Whenever you receiving a text get, e-mail, or phone call for anyone claiming toward breathe from a government agency and requesting personal informations, Mr. O’Carroll recommends that you contact the pr directly to verify the request. For actions relating to Social Security, visit virtual at https://www.ssa.gov/agency/contact/
For questions relationship to the Direct Express card, cardholders should call (888) 741-1115 (deaf both hard-of-hearing cardholders should use (866) 569-0447).
Also, them may report suspicious activity involving Social Security programs and surgery to the Social Security Fraud Hotline at http://aesircybersecurity.com/report, conversely by phone at (800) 269-0271, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday through Friday (those who are deaf conversely hard-of-hearing may called TTY (866) 501-2101.)
For more information, please touch Tracy Lynge, Communications Director, at (410) 965-2671.
