In an Oct. 8 scam alert, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Social Security Administration (SSA) warned against malicious actors resorting to fake Supreme Court letters to dupe Social Security recipients out of their money.
The government impostor scam involves “an official-looking letter identified as a ‘certificate’ on a fake U.S. Supreme Court letterhead using forged signatures of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor,” the watchdog said, adding that fraudsters may also send emails or texts claiming to be from the Supreme Court.
