CBP warns of phone scammers impersonating agents, attempting to get banking information
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection is warning residents about a phone scam.
The agency says numerous residents have received calls from scammers posing as U.S. Border Patrol agents and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers.
The calls are a pre-recorded message stating, a box of drugs and money being shipped has your name on it and it has been intercepted, according to a news release from CBP.
The caller is then instructed to press 1 to speak to an officer or agent, who then attempts to get the caller s banking information.
Ivory elephant tusk jewelry taken from traveler at Detroit Metro Airport
Ivory beads not allowed due to rule protecting African elephants
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Ivory jewelry seized May 17, 2021, at Detroit Metro Airport. (WDIV)
ROMULUS, Mich. – Ivory jewelry made from elephant tusks was recently taken from a traveler at Detroit Metro Airport,
A passenger from South Korea arrived at
DTW on Monday (May 17) and was discovered to have ivory prayer beads and bracelets made from the tusks of elephants, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
The ivory must meet certain U.S. Fish and Wildlife import/export requirements, officials said. It is not allowed in the U.S. due to the Endangered Species Act, which protects African elephants from a rise in poaching, CBP Director of Field Operations Christopher Perry tweeted.
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A categorical tweet from a U.S. border official has dashed hopes that Windsor-Essex could dramatically ramp up vaccinations by sending people to Michigan where there’s a surplus supply.
Windsor Regional Hospital CEO David Musyj said an arrangement had just been made with a pharmacist to set up a drive-thru vaccination site on the Detroit side of the Ambassador Bridge Windsor people could drive over, get the shot and return home without ever getting out of the car when he saw the tweet Wednesday from Christopher Perry, director of field operations for U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Detroit.