Don’t wire money or send money using a reloadable card.Don’t give out - or confirm - your personal or financial information to someone who calls.Government employees won’t call out of the blue to demand money or account information. If you want to check it out, visit the official (.gov) website for contact information. If you get a strange call from the government, hang up.Here are a few tips for handling these calls: It can be nearly impossible to tell whether the caller ID information is real. One scammer recently used the phone number of an FTC employee.ĭon’t rely on caller ID to verify who’s calling. The practice is called caller ID spoofing, and scammers don’t care whose phone number they use. Scammers are using fake caller ID information to trick you into thinking they are someone local, someone you trust – like a government agency or police department, or a company you do business with – like your bank or cable provider like Nortex. You recognize the number, but when you pick up, it’s someone else.
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