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Midland Park Borough Tax Office phone number being used to Sell Solar Panels

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February 3,2018

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Midland Park NJ, the Midland Park Police Department report that apparently the Midland Park Borough Tax Office phone number 201-444-1388 has been spoofed and is now being used to sell solar panels. If you see this number on your caller ID simply ignore it. We are assisting the Borough in correcting this issue…..thank you.

Caller ID spoofing is the practice of causing the telephone network to indicate to the receiver of a call that the originator of the call is a station other than the true originating station.

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Phone number used to make bomb threats in North Jersey implicated in other hoaxes

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JANUARY 20, 2016, 1:33 PM    LAST UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2016, 7:12 PM
BY STEFANIE DAZIO
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD

A phone number used to make bomb threats that led to school evacuations across North Jersey on Tuesday has been used in other, similar hoaxes, law enforcement authorities said on Wednesday.

Teaneck Police Detective Capt. John Faggello said calls were routed through a California number that “has been used before.” He did not disclose the number but said that he believes that “it’s a number commonly used in swatting incidents.” He said he did not know specifics about how the number had been used before.

Bergen County Acting Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said on Wednesday that all of the calls made to Bergen County  schools came from a phone number with a Bakersfield, Calif. exchange. He declined to say whether that number was linked to bomb threats made in other states on Tuesday, or whether the number has been linked to other hoaxes.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/phone-number-used-to-make-bomb-threats-in-north-jersey-implicated-in-other-hoaxes-1.1495539