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Social Security Administration Office of the Inspector General, P.O. Box 17768, Baltimore, MD 21235. Keep your private information private. Don’t carry your social security number or use it as a password . Don’t put your social security number on your checks, or allow your employer to use your social security number as an employee identification number. (See Social Security Identity Theft). Far too many use this number for identity, and it leads to social security theft. Release social security number only when necessary or required by law, and then find out how the keeper is going to use and safe guard it. It is hard to get a new social security number, but if you feel your social security number has been used fraudulently or for identity theft - Phone: 1-800-772-1213 or the Social Security Fraud Hotline: (800) 269-0271, or E-mail: oig.hotline@ssa.gov.
Report Spam - When working on the computer, do not respond to spam that says, "Click here to unsubscribe" since this validates to the spammer that it’s a good e-mail address. If you don’t feel like just deleting spam, to report spam forward it (without changes) to: spam@uce.gov (This is the address to report spam to the government). Just so you know, when you report spam to them, they do prosecute serious offenders, but that sometimes takes reports from like a thousand different receivers. Most spam outside of the United States won’t be investigated. I would also block the senders email address, and IP address (if possible). To verify the senders address go to: arin and enter the IP address. Many spammers have multiple email address’s that they send out spam from one or two computers, but when you block their IP address, you block all email coming from that computer. Some blocks of IP address’s are issued from a hosting company - you can report that IP address to the hosting company. Never order or sign up for anything offered in spam, as this is what keeps these spammers in business. If everyone refused to order from a spammer - the spammer makes no money - so he’s wasting his time. So report spam. Sometimes when you click on some objects in the email, it will appear as nothing happened, but the spammer could have downloaded a key logger, or botnets (see report 29), have a computer pro check your machine. Also see How To Sue Spammers (S-2/26/2008). A lot of spam sent today is phishing email, which is actually fishing for your information. (See report 22). Phishing spam should be reported to NCSD.
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