Redding police said the SHASCOM dispatch center received over 50 calls Wednesday from citizens who were concerned about phone messages left on their answering machines. Phone scams offering credit services and tech support services are the second- and third-most-common complaints this year, according to the attorney general’s office. In the scam, the resident receives a call like this.
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The Internal Revenue Service has outlined this elaborate scam on their website.
The DA’s Division of Consumer Affairs said the callers are out to cheat residents and said this phone scam has hit taxpayers in almost every state in the country. Sheriff’s investigators say the caller will say you owe money and will threaten to send you to jail if you don’t pay immediately.
Hundreds of people in the Central Wisconsin area are getting phone calls this week from scammers claiming to work for the IRS.
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We would urge anyone receiving such calls to refrain from providing any personal or financial information.
