PSA: Social Security scam text.
This one looked more official than most, so please be aware if you get this one.
Social Security does indeed have my cell phone number as part of the two-factor authorization needed to get into my legitimate Social Security account, and the text I received looked decently official.
The text was sent from number 95324.
'You have a new message in My Social Security at" : Link.
The link provided looks semi-official, but if you know what to look for, you can tell it is a janky link in the text. It looks like a bastardized .gov link.
DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINK IN THE TEXT. IT IS A SCAM TEXT.
Instead, use your browser to sign into your Social security account as you normally would, and check for messages there. Mine did not have any messages.
Have a nice day.
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why do I need to confirm a month in advance, and several times after 
It's easy to set up a website to look indistinguishable from a bank's website.
Also, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER give someone one of those texted authentication codes your bank & cc company & other places text you when you log on. Even if the person says that major fraud has occurred on your account & they can help resolve it, DO NOT give them that code!! Hang up & call your bank yourself.
Used to be a working system. I would just sign in with my email, password and plug in security key which has always worked for any dot gov site. This Planned FUBAR of Elon 'Break it Boys' Musk is deliberate to convince people 'government doesn't work' when it was working damned well until Jan 20
Am now mildly wondering if the hold mu-sak contains subliminal messages, but I am not moved to change my voter registration or buy a Tesla Dumpster, so maybe not? 
It was one of the acceptable browsers. I started off asking to change my password. But then I entered the password I'd written down. So, maybe the wrong password was in the system.
Thanks for walking me through this. 
Never click on anything you do not recognize! Ever! Even if you think you recognize it, don't click on it until you are sure!
The only links I click on are from my bank and from my doctor. I know their emails and I know that neither would ever text me a link. (They might text me about going to my email for one.) Friends send me links all the time. I copy and paste them. I also never click on anything at all with my phone. The damned thing is too important to be compromised these days, so it is just not worth it.
As someone who worked with the IT department at a private school, I cannot tell you how many times we had to try and save some teacher's computer because they just could not stop themselves from clicking on something. This would also (on occasion) bleed into the system, causing even more damage and destruction.
Don't. Do. It.
A valuable PSA! 
