The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is warning about scams where criminals are using increasingly sophisticated techniques to impersonate federal law enforcement officers in an attempt to steal money from potential victims.
The latest warning comes from FBI Honolulu, which says that while impersonation scams have existed for decades, recent reports show that “scammers are using increasingly sophisticated methods that make it difficult for individuals to determine whether a call or message is legitimate.”
In some cases, fraudsters are spoofing the official phone numbers of federal law enforcement field offices– including the FBI Honolulu office – and introducing themselves using the names of real and fictitious federal agents, impersonating agents from the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Secret Service, and other agencies…