Tag: Government Impersonators

Your Social Security number is an important key for an identity thief. Scammers want it, and they think of all sorts of ways to trick you into giving it away.

We know scammers are out there, impersonating the authorities and conjuring up different schemes to fool people into giving them money.

Here at the FTC, we think about scams all day long. What are the scammers’ new angles? How can we keep ahead of them?