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Crime Stoppers or Crimestoppers is a community program that assists people in providing anonymous information about criminal activity. Often managed by non-profit groups or the police, it operates separately from the emergency telephone number system or other standard methods of contacting police.
If you get an email providing you a PIN number and an 800 or 888 number to call, this a scam to try and steal valuable personal info. These emails will often ask you to call AOL at the number provided, provide the PIN number and will ask for account details including your password.
Casefile True Crime Podcast featured the scam in an episode in September 2020, episode titled "Case 157: The Strip Search Scam". [39] My Favorite Murder featured the scam in an episode in August 2022, episode titled "341: If You Were Godzilla...". [40] Don't Pick Up The Phone, a 2022 Netflix docuseries [25]
Crime Stoppers USA is the umbrella organization for Crime Stoppers programs in the United States.It is a non-profit, non-governmental, IRS 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable organization that advises its member programs and sets operational standards for Crime Stoppers organizations across the United States and its territories.
Crime Stoppers of the Quad Cities wants your help catching two fugitives. It’s an Our Quad Cities News exclusive. You can get an elevated reward for information on this week’s cases: LISA ...
(Reuters) - U.S. authorities charged two Chinese nationals in a cryptocurrency scam that laundered at least $73 million from defrauded victims, the Justice Department said on Friday.
Many swindles involve a minor element of crime or some other misdeed. The mark is made to think that they will gain money by helping fraudsters get huge sums out of a country (the classic advance-fee fraud/Nigerian scam); hence a mark cannot go to the police without revealing that they planned to commit a crime themselves.
The event doubles as Crime Stoppers' largest fundraising event of the year. More than 300 people attended this year, which raised roughly $13,000, according to Gonzales.