No. of Recommendations: 13
i will be replying pension does not exist....
I wouldn't reply to the letter until I'd talked to/corresponded with someone actually in the SSA office at the phone number/address collected from the SSA Website. I also don't think SSA or its OIG needs permission to verify prior employers. It might, in order to put the recipient on the record as telling the truth or defrauding the SSA, but that seems awfully close to entrapment. This sort of request, and for those "contemporary summaries," smacks of phishing and invalidates the entire letter. The "verified address" would be there only to lend verisimilitude.
Replying to the letter only confirms the recipient's address for future phishing/scam attempts by this person or others to whom the address would be sold to.
Eric Hines
