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sinkingfeeling

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10. Yes Social Security does use text, if you want them to. Check if you have set your SSA notifications preferences.

Tue Dec 30, 2025, 09:23 AM

Dec 30

Communication & Notification Preferences
Review your current preference selections
Communication PreferencesEdit
Your communication preferences let us know if we should mail paper copies of notices available on my Social Security Message Center.
When I receive a notice in Message Center: Do not send a paper copy
Notification PreferencesEdit
We'll notify you through your preferred notification method when a new message is available in my Social Security Message Center.
When there is a new Message in my Message Center Inbox, I want to be notified by: Email and Text Message

https://secure.ssa.gov/myssa/mypreferences-ui/mypreferences-home

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So I Got A Text From Social Security [View all] gab13by13 Dec 30 OP

No surfered Dec 30 #1

My guess is it wasn't from Social Security. n/t Munu Dec 30 #2

SSA does not send out text messages. Glad you deleted. debm55 Dec 30 #3

Yes, they do. Please see direct paste from your and link to SSA site in post #10. sinkingfeeling Dec 30 #20

Definitely a Scam AfternoonJoe Dec 30 #4

Soc Security sends letters via the USPS. You got a phising attempt irisblue Dec 30 #5

Also email if it knows it. I got one to check 2026 benefits. Again. question everything Dec 30 #14

SS does not send text messages............... Lovie777 Dec 30 #6

I think you did the right thing. The SS scams are all over the place these days. marble falls Dec 30 #7

Social Security *DOES* send texts, but only if you have opted in to receiving them. WhiskeyGrinder Dec 30 #8

I don't think Social Security sends texts. Norbert Dec 30 #9

Yes Social Security does use text, if you want them to. Check if you have set your SSA notifications preferences. sinkingfeeling Dec 30 #10

personal internal alarms start blaring. note : SS WILL ONLY SEND LETTERS AllaN01Bear Dec 30 #11

Not true. See the two posts above yours. sinkingfeeling Dec 30 #12

Scam. Social Security does not text people. They would send a paper letter. n/t CousinIT Dec 30 #13

Not true. See posts 8 and 10. sinkingfeeling Dec 30 #15

Ah. I see that. So they won't text you unless you specifically asked them to. CousinIT Dec 30 #16

Nope- Karma13612 Dec 30 #17

Those texts are scams Mz Pip Dec 30 #18

Wrong. The real Social Security website is www.SSA.gov Wiz Imp Dec 30 #36

You are correct Mz Pip Dec 30 #37

You didn't click a link within the text itself to change the way you log in, did you? AZJonnie Dec 30 #19

No. Report as spam, block, delete or send to your state's SoS Clouds Passing Dec 30 #21

I've never gotten a text from them, but I do get emails from them. Americanme Dec 30 #22

When you get texts that might be important ... Igel Dec 30 #23

Probably/presumably not scam. My recent email was about a 1099 form for taxes 4dog Dec 30 #24

Not necessarily a scam bcool Dec 30 #25

Go to your SS account at their website.... Hope22 Dec 30 #26

I get texts from SS once a year mcar Dec 30 #27

I had to Rebl2 Dec 30 #28

The real SS does not text anyone. This was a scam and thankfully you did not fall for it. beaglelover Dec 30 #29

This message was self-deleted by its author sinkingfeeling Dec 31 #38

Not correct. One sets their own notification preferences on the mySSA site. see direct cut & paste in #10. sinkingfeeling Dec 31 #39

I haven't received a texts recently from the SSA. Martin68 Dec 30 #30

No Evolve Dammit Dec 30 #31

Advice from others, and me. Go to the website. It has all of your earnings, yada. In 1964 I made $ 87. I was 12. twodogsbarking Dec 30 #32

SSA does send texts Picaro Dec 30 #33

I could tell from the headline that it was a scam. mwb970 Dec 30 #34

Here's the best approach to calls and texts. yardwork Dec 30 #35