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The Dining Diva:
The Dining Diva –
Cascarino’s
BY HELENE OELERICH
I love pizza – and Cascarino’s prepares the
most delicious pizza, made in a wood-burning
brick oven, with amazing marinara sauce. It’s
a casual spot with exceptionally delicious
food, right up the block here in Whitestone.
But Cascarino’s offers a lot more than just
pizza: there are house and Caesar salads,
penne ala vodka and seafood, not to mention
soups, pastas, hamburgers, Buffalo wings and
several daily specials. Everything is fresh, and
the owner, Vincent Coady, is very helpful to
his customers.
Cascarino’s is located in the shopping center
on 10th Avenue and Powells Cove Blvd., a
couple of doors from where the new North
Shore Farms Supermarket will be opening
(replacing the old Waldbaum’s).
You can call for pickup or delivery (718-
746-4370) and you can also order online at
cascarinos.com. It’s open Monday through
Thursday from 11am – 10pm; Friday and
Saturday from 11am – 10:45pm; and Sunday
from 11am – 9:45pm.
Enjoy!
Best sauce ever!
Phil enjoying! Sicilian Marinara & Pepperoni Pizzas
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Terrific Vegetable Pizza
– Yum! Martin, Cascarino’s great pizza maker
ATTENTION LE HAVRE RESIDENTS:
For Your Information - Social Security Scam Alert
FRAUD ADVISORY:
Inspector General
Warns Public About SSA
Employee Impersonation
Scheme
FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
JULY 19, 2017
The Acting Inspector General of
Social Security, Gale Stallworth Stone,
is warning citizens about a new Social
Security Administration (SSA) employee
impersonation scheme. SSA and its
Office of the Inspector General (OIG)
have recently alerted citizens about an
OIG employee impersonation scheme
and a scheme targeting former clients
of Kentucky disability attorney Eric
Conn; the agencies are now receiving
reports from citizens across the country
about other phone calls from an
individual posing as an SSA employee.
The caller attempts to acquire personally
identifiable information from
victims to then edit the victims’ direct
deposit, address, and telephone information
with SSA.
The reports indicate that the impersonator
calls from a telephone number
with a 323 area code. The caller claims
to be an SSA employee, and in some
instances, tells the victim that they
are due a 1.7 percent cost-of-living
adjustment (COLA) increase of their
Social Security benefits. The impersonator
goes on to ask the victim to
verify all of their personal information
including their name, date of birth,
Social Security number (SSN), parents’
names, etc. to receive the increase.
If the impersonator is successful in
acquiring this information, they use it
to contact SSA and request changes to
the victim’s direct deposit, address, and
telephone information.
SSA employees occasionally contact
citizens by telephone for customer-service
purposes. In only a few limited
special situations, usually already
known to the citizen, an SSA employee
may request the citizen confirm personal
information over the phone. If a
person receives a suspicious call from
someone alleging to be from SSA, citizens
may report that information to the
OIG at 1-800-269-0271 or online via
https://oig.ssa.gov/report.
Acting Inspector General Stone continues
to warn citizens to be cautious,
and to avoid providing information
such as your SSN or bank account
numbers to unknown persons over the
phone or internet unless you are certain
of who is receiving it. “You must be
very confident that the source is the
correct business party, and your information
will be secure after you release
it,” Stone said.
If a person has questions about any
communication—email, letter, text or
phone call—that claims to be from SSA
or the OIG, please contact your local
Social Security office, or call Social
Security’s toll-free customer service
number at 1-800-772-1213, 7 a.m. to
7 p.m., Monday through Friday, to
verify its legitimacy. (Those who are
deaf or hard-of-hearing can call Social
Security’s TTY number at 1-800-325-
0778.)
For more information, please contact
Andrew Cannarsa, OIG’s
Communications Director, at (410) 965-
2671.
The following is a reprint of an advisory currently posted on the Social Security
Administration’s website warning of an employee impersonation scheme. Included
are instructions about what to do if you are contacted by someone posing
as an SSA employee. ~ Editor
