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Officer warns Carpinteria residents about rising scams targeting seniors and small businesses
Summary
Officer Erika Pereira told the Carpinteria City Council about common fraud schemes — grandparent impostors, government impersonations, tech-support malware, romance and donation scams — and urged residents to verify callers, avoid immediate money transfers and report incidents to the IC3 and the city.
Officer Erika Pereira presented a fraud-prevention briefing to the Carpinteria City Council on Nov. 24, describing the tactics that scammers use and offering steps residents can take to avoid losing money.
Pereira said the patterns include callers pretending to be relatives in distress, impostors posing as law-enforcement or social-service workers demanding payment, fake sweepstakes links that steal data, and tech-support scams that install…
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