It's been a recent occurrence that every day, social security offices around the Brazos Valley have received reports of people receiving calls from scammers who are posing as SSA representatives.

Spokeswoman Sheryl Schroeder at the SSA office in Brenham says they will never make threats or promises over the phone of increasing anyone's benefits

Schroeder says fraudulent calls can be reported to local Social Security offices and to the Office of Inspector General's website, which is https://oig.ssa.gov/report