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In the Hertfordshire scam, police said one person had lost £110,000. ... in order to check if the call was legitimate. ... using a publicly-listed phone number.
Mar. 5—Police received a report at 4:23 p.m. Monday of a scam from a resident who stated he had received a call from someone claiming to be the inspector general with a federal office who stated ...
Authorities in Montgomery County are sounding the alarm about an ongoing phone scam they say has “returned" to the area. Police warn of phone scam that threatens victims with fake arrests ...
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
The check variant of the overpayment scams, as well as other confidence tricks where scammers send the victim an illegitimate check, work in part because of the delay—sometimes days or weeks—between a customer depositing a check at a bank and the check clearing and being verified as legitimate.
Mar. 8—The Odessa Police Department has recently received several complaints in reference to a phone scam involving a person pretending to be an OPD detective.
Aug. 9—ELKHART — Elkhart police have issued a warning about phone scams by persons claiming to be with the Elkhart Police Department. Individuals pretending to be law enforcement employees are ...
Here are the answers to some of the most common questions about scam phone numbers. How can I check if a phone number is a scam? Search the phone number you suspect is a scam on Google.