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Phone scams in
Darke County
The Darke County Sheriff’s Office has received numerous reports in the
past few days from citizens who have received calls from individuals
stating that they are from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The
caller further states that if the party hangs up a Sheriff’s Deputy
will respond to the person’s house and arrest them.
Sheriff Spencer says this is nothing more than a SCAM and is warning
citizens against giving the caller any personal information. The best
recourse is to simply and politely hang up on the caller, or do not
answer the call if you have caller I.D. and do not recognize the
number, especially if the number is an out of state number.
If you have given any personal information such as Social Security
Number, bank account or credit card numbers to the caller, Sheriff
Spencer recommends that you contact your bank or credit card company
and monitor your credit accounts. If you have been scammed out of
money, please call the Darke County Sheriff’s Office at 937-548-2020 to
make a report.
For more information, please visit the Darke County Sheriff’s Office
online at www.DarkeCountySheriff.org or
www.Facebook.com/DarkeCountySheriff.
Information regarding phone scams is also available through the Federal
Trade Commission (FTC) website at
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0076-phone-scams.
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