Scam Squad

This week, Scam Squad has Shawn Dyer, Chief Fraud Specialist from Montecito Bank & Trust, joins host Patti Teel and Chief Investigator Kristina Perkins of the Santa Barbara District Attornye’s Office to discuss Imposter Scams, as well as other scam now affecting Santa Barbara County. The scams that are resurfacing again are the Online Work Scam, International Lottery Scam, and with a broad sweep o...

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Chief investigator Kristina Perkins discusses how the Dept of Justice has created a new Faud Center that focuses on items such as the Tax Tariff Fraud. It ia callied the National Fraud Detection Center. What Kristina likes about it is that it will bring all the agencies together and is a multi-agency team that will investigate government program fraud. They will try to break down institutional sil...

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Santa Barbara City Councilman, Eric Friedman, warns about the Downloadable Invitation Scam and shares advice on avoiding this scam and others. He also reviews the steps you can take if you think your identity was stolen. You can call the non-urgent Santa Barbara Police Dept at 805-897-2300 Councilman Eric Friedman also invites you to contact him. Direct: 805-564-5320 Email: efriedman@santabarbarac...

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This week Scam Squad looks at a couple of types of bank scams. Very sophisticated tech support scams on local customers bank accounts have recently been happening . Local bank customers recently had a received phone call scams in the form of a fake tech support scam. Some customers are receiving the scam in the form of a popup. Scammers tell the customers that all their bank funds are in jeopardy...

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Montecito Bank & Trust Fraud Specialist reports that one of their customers was taken in by a complicated scam. It started as the familiar Tech Support Scam. The victim believes she is speaking to Microsoft Tech Support. She is told her identity has been compromised and that she needs to take out $25,000, which she eventually was able to do. She meets a courier and gives the crook her money. She a...

This week, Scam Squad has a special Scam Fighter guest who has brilliant ideas for very unique and very promising anti-scam prevention methods. This type of prevention is the best hope against A.I. scams.

Fraudsters are luring customers into verifying their debit card and social security number and then running up fraudulant charges. Gift card scams and romance scams are also still taking place and Montecito Bank & Trust issued another warning.

The latest ICE report revealed that the number one complaint had to do with phishing or spoofing. The number of complaints was up almot 40% and the dollar losses were up almost 60%. The number one scam reported had to do with phishing and spoofing, number two was tech support scams.

This week, Scam Squad discusses further and in detail this New Sneaky and Dangerous Courier Scam, where the crooks send a courier to your house to pick up cash or gold. Very new and exciting scam.

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WARNING: There is an all new International bank scam trying to drain your bank accounts. It is done by phone, but is extremely sophisticated. You need to listen to this Scam Squad to help protect and alert yourself to this all new scam. It is very dangerous.

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