{"id":60419,"date":"2018-09-11T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T02:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/coffman-and-aarp-warn-of-social-security-scam-in-colorado\/"},"modified":"2018-09-12T02:04:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T02:04:00","slug":"coffman-and-aarp-warn-of-social-security-scam-in-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/coffman-and-aarp-warn-of-social-security-scam-in-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffman and AARP warn of Social Security scam in Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=77a834fe-bbc2-46a9-be9c-53d0b776ff87&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" alt=\"Coffman, Cynthia\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Coffman, Cynthia<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Colorado Attorney General Cynthia H. Coffman and the AARP Foundation ElderWatch on Monday alerted Colorado consumers about callers claiming to be with the Social Security Administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese impostors are claiming to be investigators or attorneys with the SSA and telling consumers that their Social Security account is being used fraudulently,\u201d said Coffman. \u201cThey are urging consumers to call back immediately or risk not getting their Social Security check the next month. This is an attempt to get worried consumers on the phone in order to obtain confidential personal or financial information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amy Nofziger, of the AARP Foundation ElderWatch, stated that her office has seen a \u201cmajor uptick\u201d in the number of calls it has been receiving about the scam.<\/p>\n<p>Consumers who receive these calls should hang up without providing any information and, if the caller leaves a voicemail, they should simply delete it. \u201cUnder no circumstances should a Colorado consumer return these calls,\u201d advised Coffman.<\/p>\n<p>The Social Security Administration Office of Inspector issued its own warning about these calls in March.<\/p>\n<p>To report suspicious activity, you can call 1-800-222-4444.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coffman, Cynthiadu1-i-syn Colorado Attorney General Cynthia H. Coffman and the AARP Foundation ElderWatch on Monday alerted Colorado consumers about callers claiming to be with the Social Security Administration. \u201cThese impostors are claiming to be investigators or attorneys with the SSA and telling consumers that their Social Security account is being used fraudulently,\u201d said Coffman. \u201cThey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[202],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-60419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-briefs"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60419"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=60419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}