Telephone Scams Targeting U.S. Citizens.

Law enforcement has seen an increase in the number of reports by victims of telephone scams where the caller impersonates a family member of the victim and concocts a phony scenario suggesting the relative is in distress, it was announced today by Steven Martinez, the FBI’s Assistant Director in Charge of the Los Angeles Field Office; André Birotte Jr, the United States Attorney in Los Angeles; and officials with the United States Postal Inspection Service, the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.


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