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'Relative In Trouble': 80-Something NJ Victim Sends Scammers $12,000 'Relative In Trouble': 80-Something NJ Victim Sends Scammers $12,000
'Relative In Trouble': 80-Something NJ Victim Sends Scammers $12,000 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
Police & Fire
ALERT: Sheriff Warns Citizens Not To Fall For Arrest-Threat Phone Scam ALERT: Sheriff Warns Citizens Not To Fall For Arrest-Threat Phone Scam
ALERT: 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
Police & Fire
BEWARE: Victims Falling For Increasing IRS, Social Security Phone Scams BEWARE: Victims Falling For Increasing IRS, Social Security Phone Scams
Beware: Victims Falling For Increasing IRS, Social Security Phone Scams 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