MIAMI – The FBI’s Miami Division is warning the public about a recent increase of scam attempts targeting South Florida residents.
“Callers identify themselves as a federal officer and typically instruct people to wire or mail ‘settlement’ money or to assist law enforcement with an investigation against a bank,” the FBI said in a news release Thursday. “These calls are fraudulent, and call recipients should hang up immediately. Federal agencies do not call or e-mail individuals threatening them to send money or to use their personal money as ‘bait’ for a federal investigation.”
According to the FBI, there are different versions of this “government impersonation scam,” but the scammers all use the same tactic…