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firemonkey
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29 Jan 2020, 6:05 pm

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Scammers are spoofing the number of the FBI and using it to trick people into handing over their personal information, it has warned.

Officials said that the calls appear to be coming from the phone number of the FBI headquarters – 202-324-3000 – and so will show up as coming from from investigators on caller ID.

If a victim answers, scammers will claim they are an FBI agent, even giving a fake name and badge number. They will then say that the victim's Social Security number has been suspended, and that they need to take steps to get it back.



https://www.independent.co.uk/life-styl ... 08711.html


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29 Jan 2020, 9:26 pm

I have listened to IRS scam calls on Youtube. Almost always it is someone with a thick East Indian type accent telling the victim they need to go to WalMart or wherever, buy Amazon gift cards worth hundreds or thousands of dollars and tell the fake IRS agent what the scratch-off numbers are. If they do not cooperate law enforcement will show up in 30 minutes to arrest them.

Pretending to be the FBI sounds new, but it looks like basically the same scam.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6Rwc8lNn0k