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Sheriff's deputy warns Carpinteria residents about phone and online fraud; urges reporting to IC3
Summary
A Santa Barbara County Sheriff's deputy outlined common fraud schemes — including grandparent, government impersonation, tech-support and romance scams — described local check-washing incidents and urged residents to verify callers and report fraud to local law enforcement and the FBI—s IC3 portal.
Acting chair introduced a Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office briefing on fraud schemes, and Deputy Bridal Pereira described the tactics criminals use to extract money and personal information from victims.
Pereira said the scams typically rely on pressure and impersonation, with perpetrators urging victims to act immediately and to transfer funds by wire or gift card. "They put somebody on the phone that sounded like it could have been somebody in distress," she said, describing a grandparent scam in which a caller…
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