I was invited to log into my Social Security account to find next year benefits

[question everything]

from an email today.

What surprised me, once I was in, is that there were two notices, identical, one from Nov. 25 the other from today. I never received an email on Nov. 25th, or about that time...

Oh well..

[Deuxcents]

1. O, I don't know about this..

Who invited you to log in? The SS, IRS does not do emails or texts..be careful..’Tis the time for lots of scams.

[elleng]

2. Right, no one 'invited' me.

[question everything]

4. The Social Security Administratrion

This is the email:

You elected to receive email notifications when there is a new item in your my Social Security Message Center.

You have a new message at my Social Security. You may log in to your account to view new Message Center items.

Please do not reply to this automatically generated message. To unsubscribe from future notifications, please log in to your account and update your Message Center notification preferences.

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Have been getting them this time a year for the past two. And, with many sites these days, user ID and password are not enough, a code is sent, either to my mail or to my iPhone.

And, all it had was telling me how much I am getting next year. Yes, more.

Also, how much I "earned" in 2019 which, in my case is $0.00.

[left-of-center2012]

3. I get emails from social security and Medicare

I have an account with each with password protection.

Before logging in I always check the address from which the email was sent to make sure it's not fake.

I also get emails from the New Mexico department of human services (or whatever it's called).

[question everything]

5. I never click on the account links. Of any of them

Always to the official websites.

[anotherOKIE]

6. Might be OK

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Social Security will email you when you have a new message at your MySocialSecurity account. Also, they will text you a code to verify your identity when you log in to the site. I always go to the web site on my own but I know the link from the email is OK; however I would go there on my own as with all my other stuff like bank, credit card, etc.

[mitch96]

7. I bypass the email and just go to the SS website.. I log in. I do not click the invite button.

To me clicking on a email invite is just asking for trouble. Just open another tab or window and log on to the website if your curious..YMMV
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[left-of-center2012]

8. I noticed last time I was online with them ...

They offer the option for people too connect via the Internet, email.
Or to get all communications via USPS.

That's why I get my communications through email.

[kacekwl]

9. Same here.

[KarenS]

10. I received the same email and noticed the earlier message, too.

and just to be safe when I receive an email from them I do not click the link provided, instead I go there on my own.