Chinese police detain 1400 people in telephone scams
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- Chinese police detain 1400 people in telephone scams
- Don’t be fooled by phone scam
- Due diligence can help residents avoid scams
Chinese police detain 1400 people in telephone scams
Xinhua
Police identified almost 3000 scams and seized 12. 48 million yuan (1.
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Don’t be fooled by phone scam
Morehead News
The Kentucky Attorney General’s ffice and the Better Business Bureau warn folks to refrain from revealing financial information over the phone to those people because it’s a scam. “We are not taking formal complaints” said Heather Clary Director of Communications for BBB for Central and Eastern Kentucky. “We have taken hundreds of calls and emails about receiving the ‘robocalls’ in the last two months alone on top of the other scams. ”She said none of the people who called reporting the phone calls to BBB could say who the companies were or where they were from. In fact the phone numbers displayed on the consumer’s caller IDs were proven to be fake.
Due diligence can help residents avoid scams
Friday Flyer
ther scammers may claim to be from the IRS. The Internal Revenue Service has previously warned taxpayers to beware of e-mail and telephone scams that make it appear as though the IRS is contacting the recipient regarding rebates alleged refunds audits and more. Such scams try to lure taxpayers into giving bank account credit card or personal information. “Under no circumstances will the IRS send proactive e-mails to taxpayers alerting them to refunds audits or anything similar” according to Raphael Tulino with IRS Media Relations. The goal of most e-mail and telephone scammers is to gain access to personal information for identity theft and to have access to bank and credit card accounts for the purpose of emptying the unsuspecting taxpayer’s financial accounts obtaining loans filing fraudulent tax returns and conducting other crimes. Most of the fraudulent activity can be conducted electronically in a short amount of time but can take the victim months or even years to clean up the financial destruction.
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