Beware of Telephone Scams

 

Beware of Telephone Scams

Recently, residents in our area have been receiving financial scam phone calls and emails.

Those calls and emails, which come in a variety of different forms, purport to be from the Internal Revenue Service, Treasury Office of Legal Affairs or from the Office of the Secretary of the Treasury, and other organizations.

One scam to be aware of is an individual falsely representing the Internal Revenue Service calling and demanding payment or financial information from you claiming that you owe the IRS money and if it isn't paid that day the police would be sent to make an arrest.

Some of these scams also falsely claim that if you provide payment or bank account information to cover small expenses or processing fees you will receive a large sum of money. Similarly, emails promising a windfall in exchange for small payments are false.

Click here to report an IRS telephone scam.

Additional information concerning related scams is available by clicking here.

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Submitted by Wilton, CT

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