Avoid Phone Scams: Phone scammers will claim to be a member of the police department or a utility service and request personal or credit card information.

Recently the Police department has received various phone scam related inquiries. Phone scammers will claim to be a member of the police department or a utility service and request personal or credit card information.

PLEASE REMEMBER, police departments will NEVER call citizens and ask for money. Utility companies will usually send a mail notice versus a phone call. You should never give personal or financial information over the phone. If you find a call suspicious, hang up and call police.
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Posted comments:
 
Mary Kay Jones

IRS scam is still active - IRS will never call, they mail notices. They have dept that handles tax scams to call & report. Number can be found on web site IRS.gov.

Internal Revenue Service

Jonathan Pacheco

They called me saying they are the irs and that I needed to pay 9k or go to jail

Jennifer Albright

I got a call from some place saying they are a law office and if I didn't give them 327 dollars in 30 mins I was going to jail. They said it was for a loan that I owed. I don't ever get loans same company called my sister in law and mother in law looking for me and said they were cops

Jessica Bortz

I got a call that I took out a payday loan four years ago from "paragon something" in the amount of $450. I could pay them $970 or go to court and be sued for $2675. I chose to be sued.

Debbie Barnett Bass

I would like know the phone number to report theses scams. Isn't there a number for reporting scams that is a working number I tried to report it and was transferred to three different numbers. Never got to report the scam.

Katarina Hill

Also been getting calls stating they are The DA and that if you don't call back you'll go to jail.

Tammy Lee

Yes IRS calls my house at least 4 times a week and even on Sunday LoL

Chris Mott we need to tell your mom about this. She needs to quit answering calls she doesnt know, giving our her credit card numbers, and being so gullible!

Jessica Cooper

We keep getting phone calls that say " we are from og&e and you have exactly 45 mins to pay your bill or would be shut off." We don't even have og&e!

Cynthia Myles

LOL! that's tha best time to Play like you speak another language! Let'em Call!

Dena Watson

I received many of these calls but never gave any information or donated them.

Ozzie Medrano

But yes they are annoying.

Ozzie Medrano

I've got a few calls. They could barely speak English. They said they were from the National Treasury and I hav $7,623 for me and wanted my SSN. Shouldn't you already have that information. Dial tone, they hang up.

Michael Ellis

Thank you! Sharing...

Anita Moeller

IRS hate spell check

Anita Moeller

It's called,oops I'm being sued. Left the message on the answering machine so I didn't even get to talk to the fool

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