U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
(USCIS) learned of a new telephone scam targeting USCIS applicants and
petitioners. Scammers are using a technique called “Caller ID spoofing” to
display a misleading or inaccurate phone number in a recipient’s Caller ID. The
scammer poses as a USCIS official and requests personal information (such as
Social Security number, passport number, or A-number), identifies supposed
issues in the recipient’s immigration records, and asks for payment to correct
these records.
If you receive a call like that, USCIS
urges you to say “No, thank you” and hang up immediately.
USCIS never asks for any form of payment or
personal information over the phone. Do
not
give payment or personal information over the phone to anyone who claims to be
a USCIS official. In general, we encourage you to protect your personal
information and not to provide details about your immigration application in
any public area.
If you have been a victim of this telephone
scam, please report it to the Federal Trade Commission at https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/,
or report it to an appropriate state authority. (Visit www.uscis.gov/avoidscams for
information on where to report scams in your state.)
