McALLEN — Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott warned state employees about a write rascal done probable after an Internet confidence crack was announced final week by a Texas Comptroller’s office.
The state group in assign of collecting taxes inadvertently stored supportive information about 3 million employees — including names, addresses, Social Security numbers and driver’s licenses — on a publicly permitted website.
Those 3 million people are now a targets of a new write scam, according to a news recover sent Tuesday by Abbott’s office.
“A state worker reported receiving fake phone calls during home from an particular seeking to endorse a employee’s Social Security numbers,” according to a release.
The tourist secretly claimed to be with a Employees Retirement System of Texas — one of a 3 agencies whose information was posted on a website. The other dual are a Teacher Retirement System of Texas and a Texas Workforce Commission.
According to a report, a Health and Human Services Commission worker who perceived a phone call pronounced a fake tourist identified himself as “Mike with ERS.” The male pronounced he wanted to endorse a final 4 digits of a employee’s Social Security number, that a worker refused to provide.
“Affected state employees and retirees — as good as stream and late teachers or university employees — should be warning that ERS, TRS and a Texas Workforce Commission are not creation these write calls,” Abbott said. “State employees and all Texans who accept these kinds of fake phone calls should not yield any information to a caller: Just hang up.”
Abbott urged those whose trusted information was compromised to ask a duplicate of their credit news and examination it for unapproved comment activity.
He also suggested they hit a primary credit stating business to have a rascal warning placed on a reports and to record a military news with internal law coercion since many banks and credit agencies need it before they acknowledge a burglary has occurred.
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