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>> Koskinen said. "Our way of contacting you is by letter."

Scammers cannot contact by letter purportedly?!

I'm assuming the difficulty of finding a decades-old IBM Selectric to get the authentic "government form letter" feel is what keeps the scammers out here.

I would also assume that mail fraud is easier to investigate than telephone fraud.

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