(WBFF) — Scammers are using increasingly sophisticated tactics to pressure Maryland residents into handing over money, from phone calls impersonating family members to text messages posing as official court notices.
Warnings from the Better Business Bureau have long included the so-called grandparent scam, which targeted three residents in Baltimore County not long ago. In that scheme, a caller claims to be a grandchild who needs $10,000 for bail money.
Baltimore County police previously warned residents that some versions of the scam go beyond asking for money to be mailed or sent online. “The thing that is most unnerving about these cases is that most of the time people want money sent through the mail or sent through the internet. But in these cases, they’re actually sending somebody to the victim’s house to pick up that cash,” said Officer Jennifer Peach of the Baltimore County Police Department…