Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Alerting you to scams and frauds.
Scamming - Fraud
Scammers are calling their potential victims or sending text messages to them from the following telephone numbers: 9189844114, 4054210399, 2053774785 and 3124770577. Therefore, recipients of calls or SMS text messages from the same telephone numbers requesting personal information, financial information, or requesting that the recipients send money via pre-paid debit cards, Western Union, MoneyGram or other money transfer services, are ask to terminate the calls or delete the messages. And, they should not follow the callers’ instructions.
The callers will ask for the following information, which can be used to steal their victims’ identities, or sold to other scammers:
Persons who have already given out their information, are asked to contact their local authorities.