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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

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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 5 hrs ago OP

No surfered 5 hrs ago #1

My guess is it wasn't from Social Security. n/t Munu 5 hrs ago #2

SSA does not send out text messages. Glad you deleted. debm55 5 hrs ago #3

Yes, they do. Please see direct paste from your and link to SSA site in post #10. sinkingfeeling 3 hrs ago #20

Definitely a Scam AfternoonJoe 5 hrs ago #4

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

Also email if it knows it. I got one to check 2026 benefits. Again. question everything 4 hrs ago #14

SS does not send text messages............... Lovie777 5 hrs ago #6

I think you did the right thing. The SS scams are all over the place these days. marble falls 5 hrs ago #7

Social Security *DOES* send texts, but only if you have opted in to receiving them. WhiskeyGrinder 5 hrs ago #8

I don't think Social Security sends texts. Norbert 5 hrs ago #9

Yes Social Security does use text, if you want them to. Check if you have set your SSA notifications preferences. sinkingfeeling 5 hrs ago #10

personal internal alarms start blaring. note : SS WILL ONLY SEND LETTERS AllaN01Bear 4 hrs ago #11

Not true. See the two posts above yours. sinkingfeeling 4 hrs ago #12

Scam. Social Security does not text people. They would send a paper letter. n/t CousinIT 4 hrs ago #13

Not true. See posts 8 and 10. sinkingfeeling 4 hrs ago #15

Ah. I see that. So they won't text you unless you specifically asked them to. CousinIT 4 hrs ago #16

Nope- Karma13612 4 hrs ago #17

Those texts are scams Mz Pip 4 hrs ago #18

Wrong. The real Social Security website is www.SSA.gov Wiz Imp 2 hrs ago #36

You didn't click a link within the text itself to change the way you log in, did you? AZJonnie 4 hrs ago #19

No. Report as spam, block, delete or send to your state's SoS Clouds Passing 3 hrs ago #21

I've never gotten a text from them, but I do get emails from them. Americanme 3 hrs ago #22

When you get texts that might be important ... Igel 3 hrs ago #23

Probably/presumably not scam. My recent email was about a 1099 form for taxes 4dog 3 hrs ago #24

Not necessarily a scam bcool 3 hrs ago #25

Go to your SS account at their website.... Hope22 3 hrs ago #26

I get texts from SS once a year mcar 3 hrs ago #27

I had to Rebl2 3 hrs ago #28

The real SS does not text anyone. This was a scam and thankfully you did not fall for it. beaglelover 3 hrs ago #29

I haven't received a texts recently from the SSA. Martin68 2 hrs ago #30

No Evolve Dammit 2 hrs ago #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 2 hrs ago #32

SSA does send texts Picaro 2 hrs ago #33

I could tell from the headline that it was a scam. mwb970 2 hrs ago #34

Here's the best approach to calls and texts. yardwork 2 hrs ago #35