Phone Scams

In recent years, cyber criminals have increasingly turned to SMS as a means of distributing phishing scams.

The FBI and New York City Police have published a press release warning members of the public about an increase in virtual kidnapping scams.

Scammers posing as court officials or police officers are calling people and claiming that they have missed a scheduled jury duty date and must pay an immediate fine or face serious legal consequences.

The Police Department in Roswell, Georgia has published a recording of an IRS scam call on its Facebook Page.

Phone scammers posing as utility company staff are tricking people into giving them money via prepaid debit cards.

Reports indicate that so-called “grandparent” scams are increasingly common. In this report, we discuss how a typical grandparent scam plays out.

Jury duty phone scammers are now using the names of real police officers to make their claims more believable.

People continue to receive scam phone calls claiming to be from the technical department of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) such as Telstra.

Email forward warns that scammers are attempting to obtain CVV2/CVC2 security numbers by phoning credit card holders and posing as Security and Fraud Department staff from Visa or MasterCard.