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What you need to know about the newest social security scam

Social Security numbers are one of the most valuable pieces of information that a scammer can get ahold of, leaving the rightful owners of those numbers vulnerable to a whole slew of scams involving identity theft. And scammers have a particularly devious way of getting those numbers by pretending to be from the Social Security Administration (SSA) itself.

You get a call from someone claiming to w...