STAY SAFE WHILE YOU TAKE THE 2020 CENSUSAll genuine Census 2020 surveys and agents will never:

• Ask for your Social Security number, bank, credit card, or account numbers• Ask when you leave for or return from work• Ask for money or donations• Ask for support for a political party• Threaten jail time

Any of these is a sure sign that a supposed census agent is looking for ways to steal your identity, money or possessions.

Census fraud can hit at home or at work (the Census Bureau conducts business related surveys, too). Be especially watchful for impostors in early and mid spring of 2020, when the actual Census Bureau will be sending out reminders to fill out your form and following up in person at households that don’t respond.

TIPS TO SPOT CENSUS SCAMSVerify that a census taker is legitimate. All should have a Census Bureau photo ID badge (with a Department of Commerce watermark and an expiration date). If necessary, do a Census Bureau staff search online to confirm identity. https://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/main/email.cgi

Don’t give your Social Security number, mother’s maiden name, bank or credit card numbers to someone claiming to be from the Census Bureau.

A Census agent will never ask you for money or financial data, such as your bank account number and balance.

A Census agent will never threaten you with arrest. Taking part in the U.S. Census is required by law, but you can’t be imprisoned.

Don’t trust caller ID — scammers can use “spoofing” tools to make it appear they are calling from a real Census Bureau number. Call the National Processing Center in Jefferson, Indiana at 800-523-3205 or 800-877-8339 (TDD/TTY) to verify that a phone survey is legitimate. https://www.census.gov/about/npc.Contact_Us.html

Contact the Bureau’s National Processing Center (see above) or the regional office https://www.census.gov/about/regions/philadelphia/contact/identify.html to verify the validity of an American Community Survey or other census communication.

Check the web address of any supposed census website. Make sure it has census.gov in the address and look for https:// or a lock symbol in the browser window.

Don’t reply, click links or open attachments in a suspicious census email.

Check that a census mailing has a return address of Jeffersonville, IN, the site of the National Processing Center. For household surveys and the decennial census, the agency almost always makes contact by mail. If it’s from somewhere else, it’s a scam.

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