Full Notification

Recently we had an alert citizen receive two different suspicious correspondences, which fortunately they realized were scams, and didn’t respond to them.  These correspondences came about a week apart from two financial institutions outside of the United States.  Both scams referred to money that was left behind by a relative who had passed away and their investments were never claimed.  Both required action by the recipient to include providing personal identifying information.  Fortunately, the recipient felt this was suspicious and did not provide any information.

These types of scams, and other similar ones, have been going on for years.  If you receive something like this, we encourage you to do some research and vet out the information before acting on it.  Don’t provide any personal identifying information unless you are sure the request for it is legitimate.

There are often some obvious clues in these scams.  Things such as slight misspelling of names, names not recognized by the recipient, and the standard rule of “If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.”

We continue to encourage our community to stay vigilant, be observant and if you see something or someone suspicious, report it immediately. 


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