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The Niles Police Department provided details on a new scam:

SCAM ALERT: The police department has received multiple calls from residents regarding calls that they received from alleged Walgreen's stores. The calls come from several area codes, several included area-code 402. All of the numbers area “spoofed”, as a result they may look legitimate via caller ID, but be from an actual different number.

The calls come in like this… “This is Walgreen's Pharmacy, we are attempting to verify information for a pending prescription..” If the potential victim continues on the call they will attempt to ask for driver’s license information, social security information, insurance information and any other personal identifiers. This is known as a phishing scam, so they can obtain personal information for identity theft or insurance fraud purposes.