If you don't have an account there, make one.

Social Security log in procedure you agreed to be sent texts from SSA then one may get legitimate texts from SSA.

The better procedure is to not click on the text but log in to your SSA account to see if you have a legitimate notice.

If you get a call or text or email from somebody claiming to be from Medicare, Social Security, the IRS, your state's Dept of Transportation claiming you owe a toll, or ANYTHING like that - don't click any links, don't respond, don't give any information.

Instead, go immediately to your account via your own link and check if it's ok.

I get calls all the time from someone asking if I received my new Medicare card and they'll look up my account to confirm all is well if I give them my account number. I say "thanks, I'll check my account" and they hang up.

They have changed the set up very recently I guess. I had an old account at SSA with my own personal password, etc. They changed that so I needed to sign up again. I attempted to do that last week and the final step was that I had to give them permission to access my records, all across the system. I will not do that. I'd like to hear from other people if that is the same thing that they got when they needed to sign up? Thanks.

I have lots of privacy controls on in my browser (Firefox) and it wouldn't let me set up one of those accounts. I do remember it asking for a lot of additional information. I haven't pursued any further for now.

I also use Firefox.

Works fine and I can get right in. There's another alternative, but I never used it. The idea is to have a second check that it is you signing on. A bit more safety, I guess.

Thanks for sharing this. It is such a shit show, and something we can no longer trust, since DOGE and Musk and the regime have taken over.

When he tried to set it up they said they couldn't verify him. This was a few years ago. When he had a phone conference with SSA they couldn't do it either. He gets communications in the mail from SSA.

and she got pretty much the same email, she did what you did, she didn't open it and deleted it.

old plan

I responded, and two hours later $2,000 was deposited in my account, I got a free extended car warranty, and won a big screen TV for 85 cents on Deal Dash.

What happened to our DOGE checks?

She wanted my account number so I gave her my account at the Trump National Bank and Scam Crypto Company.

Anyone can write an email that says it comes from ssa.gov. It's easy to embed links that look like they go to ssa.gov, but take you to some scammer's web page.

If you want to go to ssa.gov, 1) use your known browser, 2) on a computer you maintain and keep virus free, 3) typing the domain in by hand. Same for your bank. Same for your brokerage.

Never, ever go to those sites through a link in email.

I would add that anything is easily faked on the internet. Go check things out before you click on anything or give a yes to anything that appears in your emails, or your social media, or any of it.

I know it sounds like a 'Mad Max' scenario... but that is because it is.

This is not Microsoft support.
You don't need a new roof.
Etc.

that I’m never going to get that $85 million the nice Nigerian Prince promised me 20
years ago?

Patience

I'm inundated by these stupid things every day !!

It is telling me to log in and check my messages.
Same log in as the VA. ID Me.

Elon's DOGE boys searching for retirerees to scam?

The amount of "rip off the old people" scams keeps increasing with my every birthday. I want all those assholes thrown into prison until they're my age, then they can be let out so they'll be the ones getting scammed by punks.

Honestly, the shit that goes on today makes me wish they were still at the level of that old bastard in Mississippi who sent out all the Nigerian prince scam emails in the 90s.

Mine said that pedo Trump increased my Social Security but then also increased my copay for Medicare, which I never use. So, I actually make less now than before I got the COLA.

Fun times ahead.

They only tell us to check our messages on the official website. If they said anything else, I'd know there was something off about it.

I logged in, checked messages and the newest was the form for 2025 taxes withheld.

ALL correspondence will be either on the website through your account or through paper notifications. The only emails you should ever get would link to your login at the SSA website.