I'm sure this has come out before, but as my job just recently posted this again & asked us to warn vets, I'm posting it again here. Veterans Affairs Services (VAS) is NOT affiliated with us in any way shape or form...beware! there have been many cons from this group & many vets & families have lost money to these disreputable scoundrels.
The attached VA Office of Security and Law Enforcement (OS&LE) bulletin contains an advisory from the National Guard concerning a group calling itself “Veterans Affairs Services.” This entity, whose name and seal are similar to VA’s, is said to be gathering personal information on Veterans.
VA’s OS&LE has requested dissemination of this advisory to make it clear that this group has no affiliation with VA and to prevent unwitting release of Personally Identifiable Information.
Please share this information with your colleagues and clients, as appropriate.
The following is an advisory sent out by the National Guard Bureau (NGB) in reference to a group called “Veterans Affairs Services”
An organization called Veterans Affairs Services (VAS) is providing benefit and general information on VA and gathering personal information on veterans. This organization is not affiliated with VA in any way. Websites with the name "VA services" immediately after the "www" ARE NOT part of the Department of Veterans Affairs; the real VA website ends in .gov.
If approached or called, do not offer them any information concerning yourself or data on other veterans. The Department of Veterans Affairs does not randomly call veterans, nor does it ask veterans for information which it does not already have. If you have not dealt with the VA previously and in person, then you receive a call from someone saying they are with the VA or something similar sounding, hang up the phone. Do not respond to emails which suggest that they are from the VA. The VA never conducts official business nor asks for personal information by email.
VAS may be gaining access to military personnel through their close resemblance to the VA name and seal. NGB Legal Counsel has requested that the NGB Provost Marshal Office coordinate with DoD to inform military installations, particularly mobilization sites, of this group and their lack of affiliation or endorsement by VA to provide any services.
VA Police Services are urged to disseminate this information in case of inquiries from veterans and to prevent their unwitting release of Personally Identifiable Information (PII).
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I'm sure this has come out before, but as my job just recently posted this again & asked us to warn vets, I'm posting it again here. Veterans Affairs Services (VAS) is NOT affiliated with us in any way shape or form...beware! there have been many cons from this group & many vets & families have lost money to these disreputable scoundrels.
The attached VA Office of Security and Law Enforcement (OS&LE) bulletin contains an advisory from the National Guard concerning a group calling itself “Veterans Affairs Services.” This entity, whose name and seal are similar to VA’s, is said to be gathering personal information on Veterans.
VA’s OS&LE has requested dissemination of this advisory to make it clear that this group has no affiliation with VA and to prevent unwitting release of Personally Identifiable Information.
Please share this information with your colleagues and clients, as appropriate.
The following is an advisory sent out by the National Guard Bureau (NGB) in reference to a group called “Veterans Affairs Services”
An organization called Veterans Affairs Services (VAS) is providing benefit and general information on VA and gathering personal information on veterans. This organization is not affiliated with VA in any way. Websites with the name "VA services" immediately after the "www" ARE NOT part of the Department of Veterans Affairs; the real VA website ends in .gov.
If approached or called, do not offer them any information concerning yourself or data on other veterans. The Department of Veterans Affairs does not randomly call veterans, nor does it ask veterans for information which it does not already have. If you have not dealt with the VA previously and in person, then you receive a call from someone saying they are with the VA or something similar sounding, hang up the phone. Do not respond to emails which suggest that they are from the VA. The VA never conducts official business nor asks for personal information by email.
VAS may be gaining access to military personnel through their close resemblance to the VA name and seal. NGB Legal Counsel has requested that the NGB Provost Marshal Office coordinate with DoD to inform military installations, particularly mobilization sites, of this group and their lack of affiliation or endorsement by VA to provide any services.
VA Police Services are urged to disseminate this information in case of inquiries from veterans and to prevent their unwitting release of Personally Identifiable Information (PII).
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