I always follow the more general adage of “never provide information to people who reach out to you”; call back to a known-good number before handing over info.

I always follow the more general adage of “never provide information to people who reach out to you”; call back to a known-good number before handing over info. I do feel like a PSA would be a good measure; we lose enough to fraud that it may pay for itself. I don’t think we’ll see one, though. That would be a tacit admission that the government has completely lost control of a key communication technology.