DON'T GET SCAMMED: The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency says they're seeing a spike in people reporting the scams.
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency says they are seeing an uptick in reports of people receiving calls from scammers posing as CBP officers or Border Patrol agents.
The agency says the scammers are targeting people nationwide to get banking or financial information.According to the agency, people report that the scammers say they need to confirm certain information because CBP intercepted a shipment of drugs with their name and address on it. If the target refuses to cooperate, the scammer may threaten that police will go to their location.
The scammer may even provide an actual CBP employee’s name or phone number found on the internet for the would-be victim to verify, or they might provide fake case and badge numbers, officials say. In some cases, officials say the scam call may be a pre-recorded message saying that a "shipment of drugs or money with your name on it and has been intercepted." The target is told to press #1 to talk with CBP, and the scammer then tries to confirm their banking information, CPS says.
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