DEA impersonator phone calls on the rise - what everyone should know
By Veronica Meadows and David Komer online producer
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DEA warns of potential scams by people impersonating them
The Drug Enforcement Administration says they caught one con artist in the act impersonating an agent trying to steal someone s money.
A newly released phone call shows the length a scammer will go: You should not be doing this you know you re wrong,
Scammer: You can check me online, I can send you my badge picture. I actually have the DEA here, the actual DEA on the phone,
The DEA says the man didn t let up even after a real agent listening in, called him out.
Indianapolis Ernie Perkins of Zionsville, and the owner of Remarkable Creative Enterprises ( RCE ), was sentenced to 70 months imprisonment in connection with his role in a massive, years-long fraud conspiracy that resulted in the theft of more than $8.4 million from a Pennsylvania based bank and a Pennsylvania based insurance company. Neither the bank nor the insurance company are being named because they are victims in this case. The license to run a business is not permission to use trusted business partners as an endless stream of free money, said Acting Special Agent in Charge Tamera Cantu, of IRS Criminal Investigation, Chicago Field Office. John Williams and his accomplices used their positions and access to the banking system to steal over $8 million from multiple businesses, as well as the honest, hardworking Americans who pay their tax obligations. The IRS is committed to aggressively investigating those individuals who engage in tax evasion, money laundering, and f
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