Superior Enterprise Bureau discusses ‘Emergency Call’ rip-off
JACKSON, Tenn. — The Much better Business enterprise Bureau of the Mid-South is warning Tennesseans of a new cellular phone fraud heading all around.
The bureau says in just West Tennessee by yourself, there have been seven claimed scenarios of losses totaling over $5,000.
Nationwide, the BBB studies an additional 157 totaling over $100,000.
Daniel Irwin, with the BBB, suggests it is all joined to a new scam using a unique system.
“These forms of scams are involved with what we contact ‘Emergency Scams.’ There’s some form of hook. They’re hoping to get you to give funds in some way. They’re impersonating another person else, whether it be you or whether it be a family member, but they are impersonation type ripoffs,” Irwin claimed.
Persons are obtaining a cell phone phone in which the man or woman on the cellular phone has the identical voice of a family member. In
