BELFAST — Waldo County General Hospital has been alerted to an incident of a person receiving a phone call from what appeared to be the hospital’s telephone number, 207-338-2500. The
CCPD warns of new phone scam
Beware of spoofing calls
and last updated 2021-05-05 15:24:59-04
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas â The Corpus Christi Police Department has issued a warning about a new phone scam.
They ve received reports of a scammer claiming to be a detective with the CCPD and threatening to arrest people.
The CCPD says it s a scam and they offer this advice on how to be avoid being swindled.
First watch out for spoofing.
Many scammers will fake their phone number so it appears like a well-known agency on a caller ID.
They say the caller may even provide you with a badge number and the last 4 of your social security number.
Millions of scam calls are placed in this country each day, but the News 8 On Your Side team has been hearing from dozens of viewers recently about one particular call that s using your neighbors phone numbers to get to you.Sue Sheeler, of Lancaster County, was the first person to make a report to 8 On Your Side consumer investigator Brian Roche after she returned one of the more than 30 calls she received. And I ended up getting this gentleman that said to me, We re going to issue a new Medicaid card or Medicare card, she said.Sheeler knew the call was a scam and didn t provide any information.She kept a list of the calls, and they all started with the same six numbers: 717-575. Those are also the first six digits of her phone number.This is what is called neighbor spoofing. Scammers program their computerized dialing devices to display phone numbers with the same prefix as yours on caller ID to get you to believe it s someone nearby, such as a neighbor, instead of a scamme