Scam Squad

This week Scam Squad reviews the new twists in old scams such as the Warrant Scam where you get a phone call or message saying that you owe money for a ticket or a fine. Also Scam Squad warns us about phony calls saying it's time to renew your cable, internet, wi-fi, or phone, or other contract and that you contract is about to expire and you will be fined a huge amount of money if you allow it to expire. The last scam is a bank account scam where they try to get you to withdraw cash and wait at home for a courier to come and pickup. These scams are happing now all over the USA.

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This week Scam Squad explores the new area of ACH Scams. This is a very clever and sophisticated imposter scam, often involving hundreds of thousands of dollars and even several millions of dollars. It is most often used in business transfers involving funds from bank accounts at the bank.

This week Patti and Kristina talk about A.I. scams that have been plaguing the Nation. An A.I. scam is where an imposter steals the voice print and/or image of an individual and then pretends to be them. Because they can make audio and video sound and look very much like the person from whom they stole the voice print and image from and then starts to impersonate them in a variety of illegal ways and situations, mostly to scam or defraud other individuals out of money. Learn ways to help spot A.I. phone calls and videos.

TRAVEL SCAMS - This week, Scam Squad host Patti Teel and Chief D.A. Investigator Kristina Perkins, discuss the latest travel scams, in particular airline ticket booking scams. Investigator Perkins also discusses other scams that are currently attacking Santa Barbara County and the Nation. Be sure to listen to this episode if you are planning to travel or fly soon.

This week, our guest is Montecito Bank, who recently detected a romance scam being perpetrated on one of it's bank customers. Learn about romances scams, as well as about other types of impersonationist scams, by listening to Scam Squad each week.

Commander Bryan Millard, in Grover Beach CA, has spearheaded an all-new Scam Fighting Organization to protect senior citizens from scammers. The local police and several other diverse members of the community have come together to create a strong anti-scam community outreach program called Silver Shield. For more information about this group, be sure to listen to this podcast!

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Today we look at the Courier Scams that had been surging in Santa Barbara County, the State, and the Nation. Courier Scams are when a Grandparents Scam, Kidnapping Scam, Extortion Scam, or similar scams where the crooks have remotely pressured the victims into agreeing to hand over large amounts of money in the form of cash, gift cards, gold coins, etc to a courier that shows up at the victims location, receives the money, packages it, and sends it off by mail, ups, fed-x or other means.

This week, host Patti Teel and Greg from the District Attorney's Office, tells us about the huge consequences of Identity Theft and then guides us step by step as to how to very simply and easily, totally guard yourself from Identity Theft.