'Be vigilant': Scammers are pretending to be police in and around Market Drayton

Woore residents on alert as police warn of phone scammers

Police are warning residents of Woore and the Market Drayton area to be very careful due to a rise in phone scammers pretending to be police officers.

Springfield Police warn residents of calls from man pretending to be a police officer

SPRINGFIELD — A man pretending to be a Springfield police officer has been calling people in Livingston and Ascension parishes claiming to be from the department's "civil division."The department does not have a civil division, Police Chief James Jones said Wednesday in an online post.In Springfield, the Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office and the Livingston Justice of the Peace handle civil matters.The phony officer has called himself Sgt. Blanc…

Scammers impersonating NamPol – News Stand

Niël Terblanché The Namibian Police in the Erongo region issued a stern warning to residents of Walvis Bay and Swakopmund not to divulge their banking details when called by people identifying themselves as police officers. Chief Inspector Ileni Shapumba, the head of the police’s community affairs division in the region, said that a yet unknown person has been calling coastal residents randomly since Wednesday. “A man who introduced himself as C…

'Be vigilant': Scammers are pretending to be police in and around Market Drayton

Police have warned residents in Market Drayton and surrounding areas to be 'vigilant' after reports of scam phone calls.

The Attorney General's Office of the National District requested the imposition of preventive detention against four Colombian citizens accused of committing robberies in the Naco and Los Praditos en el Distrito Nacional, Dominican Republic. The defendants are told to use an unknown substance to induce their victims to lose consciousness and then strip them of cash, high-value items and personal documents. (Continue reading...) The entry Dismant…

A well-known new type of scam uses the data subdued in October at Xavier Niel's operator, be vigilant. The "spoofing" can wreak havoc and trap even some users yet vigilant. The technique is simple: to display a phone number corresponding to an institution or a well-known company for the purpose [...] The article Alert, scammers use stolen IBAN from Freebox subscribers to scam them by pretending to be the gendarmerie has been published on Univers…