Local Phone Scam
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- Chinese police detain 1400 people in telephone scams
- Salem Police Warn of New Phone Scam (AUDI)
- Webster sheriff’s office adds fraud alert to its Web site
- Don’t be fooled by phone scam
- Phone scam exploits service for hearing impaired to swindle local …
Local Phone Scam
WETM-TV
The Schuyler County Sheriff says a man claiming to be a sergeant with the Halifax Nova Scotia Police Department is calling people saying that one of their relatives has been in an accident. He then asks for a large amount of money to be sent so the relative can return to the United States. Police say the man knows personal information and names from the victim’s family. Anyone who receives such a call is asked to call police.
Chinese police detain 1400 people in telephone scams
Xinhua
Police identified almost 3000 scams and seized 12. 48 million yuan (1.
Salem Police Warn of New Phone Scam (AUDI)
Salem-News.Com
Banking institutions and government agencies who have a need to know that information will most certainly already have it and will have no need to have you verify it for them again. Always verify that the phone number to the business is legitimate by using other means such as telephone directories. Scam artists often set up bogus phone banks and have people answering those phones imitating a legitimate business. Scam artists also set up bogus websites that look almost identical to authentic websites even using company logos and symbols. Do not click on links to these websites that come with the suspect message. Go onto the internet yourself and research the company and verify the correct website for that company before conducting any further business.
Webster sheriff’s office adds fraud alert to its Web site
Shreveport Times
While such scams go to great lengths to look legitimate they are not sheriff’s officials say. Real telephone numbers friendly representatives familiar bank names and customer surveys are examples of how they pose themselves as valid companies the release states. Another recent telephone scam sweeping the area requires callers to pose as a relative (grandchild etc. ) who has ended up in jail and needs money wired to bond out. Anyone who receives such a call should verify every bit of information with family members before wiring any money the news release states. getElementById(”article-pagination”).
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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.
Phone scam exploits service for hearing impaired to swindle local …
TMCnet
ZZZ END –> [August 02 2009] Phone scam exploits service for hearing impaired to swindle local eateries Aug 02 2009 (Billings Gazette – McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via CMTEX) — The recipe calls for a phone line a tug on the heartstrings and a special service intended for the hearing impaired. When mixed together with a dash of deceit the ingredients bake into a phone scam that has left several local restaurateurs boiling.
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