PARSIPPANY — Parsippany Police Officers Remo D’Alessandro and Brian Conover gave a presentation at the Parsippany Community Center on Knoll Road about identity theft and phone scams, on Wednesday, July 15.
A few points the Parsippany Police Departmetn would like to repeat to the public are:
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Never give any personal information over the phone unless you can verify who is calling. When in doubt hang up and call them at a number that you know, such as the one off the back of your credit card or billing statements.
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Communicate with family members, who are not going, prior to vacations or trips so they know where you will be. Scams have evolved to the point were people will call and state that their family member has either been in a bad car accident, kidnapped, or arrested at some location.They demand you wire them money or purchase money cards and give them the information for their medical treatment/ransom/or bail. These scams are extremely frequent.
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If you receive an email or phone call that you won the lottery in some overseas country or someone overseas has millions of dollars they need your help securing, I’m sorry to say its a scam.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will not call and demand money to be sent them or else you will be arrested.
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Always research the charity that is calling for a donation. Scammers will attempt to use tragic situations to tug at your emotions and get you to donate.
