BBB on Seniors: What’s new with an old scam — Social Security phone scam edition

With every new year comes a new scam, and so far, 2020 is no different. At the beginning of this year, the Office of the Inspector General for the Social Security Administration announced a new twist on an old scam — the Social Security phone scam. By now, lots of you are familiar with the old ruse of menacing phone calls from someone posing as an agent from the Social Security Administration, threatening to take you to jail or initiate some other legal action if you don’t pay up imm