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By: EFE Updated 20 Jan 2022, 18: 40 pm EST
WASHINGTON – The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) alerted today, Thursday, about scammers who, posing as agents of that agency, demanding payments or information about personal bank accounts.
“Individuals across the country have received unsolicited calls from scammers posing as Patrol agents Border and CBP officers,” the agency said in a statement.
The calls consist of a recorded message indicating that “a box with drugs and money sent in your name has been intercepted”.
In other calls, scammers claim to be CBP officers reporting arrest warrants or asking for information in exchange for bitcoins.
“In both cases, the resident (who receives the call) is instructed to to provide information about your bank account and other personally identifiable information such as Social Security number or date of birth,” the notice added.
The CBP urged the public not to give any information in those calls, and added that neither neither the agency nor the Department of Homeland Security request money over the phone.
People receiving these calls, he added, can take note of the number and other details about that communication, without responding to the message, and then they can report them to the local police and the Federal Trade Commission.
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