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Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood Police Department continues to receive reports from residents who have received phone calls from scam artists masquerading as members of the department, demanding payments and threatening arrest.
Continue reading The “Spoofing” of Ridgewood Police Phone Numbers Continues
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Upper Saddle River NJ, the Upper Saddle River Police Department has been made aware of a fraud scam utilizing our main phone number 201-327-2700. The caller will claim to be “Detective Cooper” and will tell you that you have an active warrant. Please do not respond to the fraudsters questions and disconnect the call. If you would like to confirm that call is not actually from the Upper Saddle River Police Department, disconnect the call and contact our main number.
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Trenton NJ, Legislation introduced by Senator Sam Thompson would hang up the phone on telemarketers hiding their identities by spoofing the name or phone number displaying on caller ID.
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Ridgewood NJ , according to the Ridgewood Police Department , A north Brunswick resident reported they they received a call from what appeared to be the Ridgewood Police Departments phone number. The caller advised them that there was a warrant for their arrest and requested that they provide personal information.
This phone scam spoofs the Ridgewood Police Departments phone number. Spoofing is when a legitimate number appears in the victim’s caller ID, but the originating call is not from who they claim it is from. The Ridgewood Police Department will never call and ask for personal information on the phone or ask to for money to satisfy a warrant. If you receive a similar phone call hang up and call your local police department or contact the Ridgewood Police Department directly at 201-652-3900
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.