Use These Scam Tools to Spot Fraud Dawn Bystry, Deputy Associate Commissioner, Office of Strategic and Digital Communications
ON MARCH 10, WE HELD OUR ANNUAL NATIONAL SLAM THE SCAM DAY to raise We encourage you to watch the replay below of our Facebook Live from March 10 about awareness of Social Security-related scams and other government imposter scams. In case Social Security-related scams and other government imposter scams. Please share these you missed it, here are our top tools and resources for this year: scam resources with your friends and family—and help us spread the message on social 1. Check out our Fraud Prevention and Reporting page to learn about Social Security media. Let’s continue to Slam the Scam together! fraud – and how we fight scammers. 2. Read our Scam Alert factsheet to learn what tactics scammers use and how to protect yourself. 3. Create your own personal my Social Security account to stay one step ahead of fraudsters. Please read our blog post for more information about creating or signing in to your personal my Social Security account. 4. Learn about other types of fraud on our Office of the Inspector General’s (OIG) Scam Awareness page. You’ll also see how to report these scams to our OIG and other government agencies. 5. Read our blog post to learn how to guard your Social Security card – and protect your personal information. You can also check out the Federal Trade Commission’s page, Avoiding and Reporting Scams, for additional scam-related information.
California Writers Club Celebrates Women’s History Month THE HIGH DESERT BRANCH OF THE CALIFORNIA WRITERS CLUB members met recently in the Hesperia Library Community room for a Read-in of works by women writers for their Fourth Annual celebration of Women’s History Month. Master of Ceremonies was author Emmalisa Hill who began by announcing that the evening was dedicated to writers and poets of the Ukraine. The room was filled with sunflowers, their national flower. Reader Judith Pfeffer began by reading a selection by the renowned Agatha Christie. Lorelei Kay read “My Grandmother Plaits my Hair at the End of the World,” by Shivanee Ramlochan. Linda Boruff read an abridged Polish folktale, “The Jolly Tailor Who Became King,” by Lucia Merecka Borski, and Debbie Joy Rubio did a powerful performance reading of a poem by Anastasia Dmitruk, “Never We Will Be Brothers.” Poet Robert Keith Young read Loralei Kay
HDCWC President Dwight Norris
poems by his mother, Bonnie Young, a former Poet Laureate of San Luis Obispo County. He also read from Linda Pastan’s work. Rita Wells, in addition to setting up the refreshment table, told facts about sunflowers, symbols of optimism and nuclear disarmament which actually absorb radioactive toxins from the environment. Ann Miner read from the club’s state Literary Review, and President Dwight Norris read a poem by Meg Wheatley, “I Want to be a Ukrainian,” written in 2005 to honor the Orange Revolution in Ukraine. Mary Langer Thompson read a short love poem by Lina Kostenko, a wildly popular poet and novelist in Ukraine who was censored for a number of years but is currently publishing. All that was missing seemed to be music until Anita I. Holmes sang a Ukrainian lullaby, partly in Ukrainian and partly in English. It was an evening to be long remembered. The High Desert branch of the California Writers Club meets the second Saturday of each month at Jess Ranch Community Church in Apple Valley. Visit www.hdcwc.com for more information.
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