Verify the Feds

We have been providing some hints about avoiding email fraud/spam being sent to UCLA folks.  Here is some more general info courtesy of your friendly feds:

Every day, the federal government uses social media services like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube to communicate and provide easy access to government benefits and services. But unlike most government websites, which are hosted on a .mil or a .gov domain, social media sites are hosted on commercial domains. Without the .gov or the .mil, it can be difficult to determine which social media accounts are official government sources of information and which are impersonators. To help solve that problem, the federal government recently launched a social media registry in English and Spanish, where you can confirm the validity of a variety of government social media accounts.  Click on the link below and follow directions there:

Visit the social media registry to check the validity of government social media accounts

It never hurts to ask: