Scammers are getting trickier, and a recent scam is going as far as spoofing the Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office’s actual number.
Scammers Are Getting More Convincing
It seems like we are constantly hearing about new scams popping up, and unfortunately, as technology rapidly evolves, so do the methods scammers use. One of the methods commonly used by scammers is called “spoofing.”
The FCC defines spoofing as:
Spoofing is when a caller deliberately falsifies the information transmitted to your caller ID display to disguise their identity. Scammers often use neighbor spoofing so it appears that an incoming call is coming from a local number, or spoof a number from a company or a government agency that you may already know and trust…