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'Relative In Trouble': 80-Something Glen Rock Victim Sends Scammers $12,000 Cash 'Relative In Trouble': 80-Something Glen Rock Victim Sends Scammers $12,000 Cash
'Relative In Trouble': 80-Something Glen Rock Victim Sends Scammers $12,000 Cash A Glen Rock woman in her 80s wrapped $12,000 in cash and sent it to phone scammers who convinced her that a relative in trouble needed it, authorities said. One of the scammers called the victim claiming to be the relative and then put an accomplice posing as an attorney on the phone, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said Monday. The “attorney” told the victim that the relative was in jail and needed the cash sent by UPS to an address in Memphis, TN, Ackermann said. Last Tuesday, the woman sent the package, which UPS tracking confirmed was delivered to the Memphis address shortly before 10 a.m.…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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ALERT: Bergen Sheriff Warns Citizens Not To Fall For Arrest-Threat Phone Scam ALERT: Bergen Sheriff Warns Citizens Not To Fall For Arrest-Threat Phone Scam
ALERT: Bergen Sheriff Warns Citizens Not To Fall For Arrest-Threat Phone Scam Bergen County Sheriff Anthony Cureton warned citizens again Tuesday about a phone scam by thieves impersonating department officers. The scammers are “spoofing” his office's general number, then posing as sheriff's officers threatening unsuspecting victims with arrest for what they say are outstanding summonses for failing to appear in court, he said. One scammer previously claimed to be with a "Division of Warrants and Citations" -- not an official title under the sheriff's command. “The Bergen County Sheriff's Office, IRS, Social Security, or any other legitimate business or governm…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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BEWARE: Residents Falling For Increasing IRS, Social Security Phone Scams, Glen Rock Police Say BEWARE: Residents Falling For Increasing IRS, Social Security Phone Scams, Glen Rock Police Say
Beware: Residents Falling For Increasing IRS, Social Security Phone Scams, Glen Rock Police Say At least two Glen Rock residents were conned into providing personal information to phone scammers – one of whom claimed to be from the IRS and two others who said they were Social Security agents who’d found a car registered to him at the Mexican border carrying 22 pounds of cocaine. The purported agents told a 93-year-old borough man that documents that indicated it was his car were found in the abandoned vehicle, Police Chief Glen Ackermann said. They also claimed that there was a warrant issued for his arrest and that he needed to confirm personal identification – which he unfortunately…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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HEARTBREAKING: Phone Scammers Steal $22,500 From 80-Year-Old Tenafly Woman HEARTBREAKING: Phone Scammers Steal $22,500 From 80-Year-Old Tenafly Woman
Heartbreaking: Phone Scammers Steal $22,500 From 80-Year-Old Tenafly Woman Heartless phone scammers stole $22,000 from an 80-year-old Tenafly woman by claiming her computer was hacked and her banking information was compromised, police said. Claiming to be from “Apple technical support,” the thieves called each night for five nights, getting the woman to buy GooglePlay gift cards in $500 allotments at various stores to cover the “investigation,” Capt. Michael deMoncada said. Once they got her to provide the numbers from one batch of cards, they told her she had to buy more, deMoncada said. Eventually, they convinced her to buy 45 cards, he said. It would have go…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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'Kidnapped' Fair Lawn Student OK After Scam Ransom Call To Dad 'Kidnapped' Fair Lawn Student OK After Scam Ransom Call To Dad
'Kidnapped' Fair Lawn Student OK After Scam Ransom Call To Dad RIDGEWOOD, N.J. -- A woman on the other end of the line yelled for help before a scam caller from a phone number in Mexico told an employee at the Valley Hospital in Ridgewood that his teenage daughter was being held for ransom late Thursday morning. It was bogus. The employee "believed the caller had the wrong number and hung up on the caller and contacted the Ridgewood police, Chief Jacqueline Luthcke said. Village police, in turn, asked their colleagues in Fair Lawn, where the girl goes to school, to check on her, the chief said. She was "safe and in school as expected,"…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Glen Rock, Wyckoff Seniors Tell Phone Scammers To Get Lost Glen Rock, Wyckoff Seniors Tell Phone Scammers To Get Lost
Glen Rock, Wyckoff Seniors Tell Phone Scammers To Get Lost GLEN ROCK/WYCKOFF, N.J. – Not everyone falls for phone scams: Two elderly women – one from Glen Rock, the other from Wyckoff – recently sniffed them out and called police. The 85-year- old Glen Rock woman told police she got a call from someone claiming to be her granddaughter, saying that she and her father needed bail money after being involved in a car crash. “This was followed by a call from a man claiming to be a lawyer representing the granddaughter,” Glen Rock Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. “The woman was aware of the grandparent’s scam and contacted her family in Florida to conf…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Ridgewood Resident Conned Out Of $1,460 In PSE&G Phone Scam Ridgewood Resident Conned Out Of $1,460 In PSE&G Phone Scam
Ridgewood Resident Conned Out Of $1,460 In PSE&G Phone Scam RIDGEWOOD, N.J. – A phone scammer suckered a Ridgewood woman out of a significant hunk of cash using the old PSE&G non-payment threat, authorities said Thursday. The Kenilworth Road resident told police the caller identified himself as an employee of the utility company, then told her that her utilities would be turned off if she didn’t pay an outstanding bill, Police Chief Jacqueline Luthcke said. The scammer told her to buy $960 worth of MoneyPak cards, after which he had her read him the serial numbers, the chief said. He didn't stop there, though: The bandit got his victim to buy a…

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by Jerry DeMarco