{"id":22991,"date":"2021-09-10T13:41:39","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T17:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/?p=22991"},"modified":"2021-09-10T13:42:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T17:42:36","slug":"maryland-state-police-recover-12000-for-elderly-victim-of-phone-scam-in-carroll-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/2021\/09\/10\/maryland-state-police-recover-12000-for-elderly-victim-of-phone-scam-in-carroll-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland State Police Recover $12,000 For Elderly Victim Of Phone Scam In Carroll County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(WESTMINSTER, MD) \u2013 Maryland State Police helped recover $12,000 for an apparent victim of a telephone scam in Carroll County.<\/p>\n<p>At about 8 a.m. this morning, the elderly female victim arrived at the Maryland State Police Westminster Barrack to report that she believed she had been the victim of a scam. According to a preliminary investigation, the victim had been convinced to ship $12,000 in cash via FedEx to an address in Belmont, California.\u00a0 The scam originated from a telephone call the female received.<\/p>\n<p>Using the information the victim brought to the barrack, a trooper tracked the package and contacted the FedEx Law Enforcement Liaison in California.\u00a0 The package containing the $12,000 was located and pulled from delivery. The money is being returned to the original victim.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some tips to protect yourself from scams in general:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do not give out your personal information to someone you do not know.<\/li>\n<li>Store personal information in a safe place.<\/li>\n<li>Do not carry your social security card in your wallet.<\/li>\n<li>Collect mail every day and put a hold on it during extended travel.<\/li>\n<li>Use security features on your smartphone and computer.<\/li>\n<li>Use complex passwords.<\/li>\n<li>Do not use gift cards to pay the IRS or Social Security, tech support, a family member in trouble, ransom or to avoid arrest or deportation or to prevent your utilities from being turned off.<\/li>\n<li>Trust your instincts. If you think it might be a scam, it probably is one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The case remains under investigation\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">###<\/p>\n<p>CONTACT: Office of Media Communications, msp.media@maryland.gov<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(WESTMINSTER, MD) \u2013 Maryland State Police helped recover $12,000 for an apparent victim of a telephone scam in Carroll County. At about 8 a.m. this morning, the elderly female victim arrived at the Maryland State Police Westminster Barrack to report that she believed she had been the victim of a scam. According to a preliminary<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/2021\/09\/10\/maryland-state-police-recover-12000-for-elderly-victim-of-phone-scam-in-carroll-county\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,28,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barracksg-westminster","category-press-releases","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22992,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22991\/revisions\/22992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}