Warning -- Social Security scam alert!

This message was recently posted on the Social Security website:

The Agency has received several reports of an email message being circulated with the subject “Cost-of-Living for 2007 update” and purporting to be from the Social Security Administration. The message provides information about the 3.3 percent benefit increase for 2007 and contains the following “NOTE: We now need you to update your personal information. If this is not completed by November 11, 2006, we will be forced to suspend your account indefinitely.” The reader is then directed to a website designed to look like Social Security’s Internet website.

You can read about this alert at:
http://www.ssa.gov/pressoffice/pr/colaPhishingScam-pr.htm