You read about the latest scams in the paper on almost a daily basis, but I just got a call myself on my cell phone with a robot saying, “Your Social Security number was used fraudulently in a transaction in Laredo, Texas. Please press 1 to speak to an officer.â€Â I typically screen my calls, but since this was coming from an 831 area code I was curious and picked up the phone. I hung up without pressing 1 and when I googled the telephone number it was a cell phone, so surely it was not the Social Security Administration. Be careful, these scams seem to increase around holiday time.
