Hang up on spoofed SSA calls

That is really not the way technology works. The ssn office has no abilities to do make it impossible to spoof numbers or prevent calls from reaching to you.

You have be diligent about YOURSELF. How many things do the gov have to do for you. Just know that welive in Advantage where computers and cell phones are getting obsolete the next day because another version of it comes out that's better faster more security so how is the IRS or the government the IRS should be doing that not the government each company should be responsible for not having spoof calls especially companies like the SSA and the IRS or any of those companies that would never call you directly this scares people imagine old people that get calls from Social Security and they are being threatened to throw the benefits will be cut off of course they're going to start giving information they didn't grow up in this era of technology and I understand that it seems simple for people to just the government to come in and just say stop all this how many things are we going to make the government have to do when R Us as people going to take a stand together and go look you're not going to call my phone anymore and this site right here is how we do it if you're smart and people are smart tell them you're getting a call like this and if everyone tells 10 people those 10 people will tell 10 people and then so on and so on until mostly everybody will know and those scans will stop on their own there used to be a scam a courier service and they used to say that you had to give them your address cuz they were Courier Service and they were coming with papers from the government and if you had something going on you would think that yes I have papers coming and so you did would say where are you right now and then you would tell him and they would start robbing people's houses because they weren't at home see how scans are but that's can one away because people talked about it so don't feel discouraged to feel great that we found a website that cares about consumers the people like you and I that make thissomething that you need to be diligent about on your own because again they cannot look out for billions of people they can look out for a few but you and I have to look out for ourselves so again just responding to your comment no no argument there just wanted to let you know that we have to be diligent as people as our own self because I've had my identity stolen and they'll do it whether they get the information from you online a friend or follow you so be careful everyone out there because it's getting a little crazy

Right on target! Excellent advice to spread the word, tell people to pass it on! It is up to US to be diligent, informed and knowledgeable about unscrupulous practices perpetrated by crooks. The government is not there to protect you. Government is intrusive enough.

I'm the last one to fall back on government help....but SOMETHING has to be done. Perhaps you don't understand the problem. I own a service business. Locally owned. I get 20 to 30 of these spoofed number calls a day....they are spoofing LOCAL NUMBERS, not 1 800 numbers, not 1 888 numbers...local numbers that individuals own. I have been called thinking it's my mom calling because they spoofed her number....So tell me Mr. be diligent about yourself. How do I handle this? I pretty much have to answer the phone because I would like to stay in business and service the people in my area. Caller ID says it's a local number. Local number means a local potential client so I pretty much have to answer the phone or just not grow my business...only problem is half the calls I get are spoofed scammers faking local numbers...the other half are real people wanting service. SO yeah, the government needs to do something about this...they need to get with phone companies and get this to stop......and i'm not the only local business complaining about this....we can't ignore the numbers because they're local numbers and could be clients...so tell me....how am I supposed to be diligent? I don't know their company, i don't know their REAL phone number...so when I ask...what's your company name....they hang up...I have no recourse, I have no company to report, I have no number to reverse search...seriously....how am I supposed to do anything about that Mr. Don't let the government handle your problems.....Trust me, I believe the government needs to be about 90% smaller...The Federal government's one and only responsibility is to protect its citizenry.....sooo......Something like this is exactly what the government should be doing....PROTECTING ITS CITIZENRY....that doesn't always mean from commies ya know, sometime's it's about scammers, theft and the like as well .....Yeesh.

Can you do anything about the millions of unwanted phone calls from salespeople that we get every year? Aren't you just as sick of them as we are? We all pay for our phone service but get only rare legitimate calls. Help!!!

I bought a cheap telephone with answering machine ($50). About 98% of callers hang up when it kicks in. Those who leave a recorded message (Your credit is excellent. Congratulations!) the machine records the day and time so I can report it to the Do Not Call registry. I don't have to be bothered talking to scammers.

I let my 7 year old grandson answer these calls. After they ask him 2 or 3 questions and they realize it's only a kid, they get frustrated and hang up!

I ONLY have a mobile number and just received one of these calls. DO NOT BE COMPLACENT!!!

The same happened to me. I called them back to 218-517-2934 and been told that USA government will arrest me for drug traffic and money laundering

I normally do the same. I love to mess with scammers. Like you, I gave them a fake name and number and the (Asian accent) caller then proceeded to tell me my real name, zip code, and SSN! I was completely shocked. He had me. So, I just hung up.