Scam Alert: FTC Imposter Offering Money to OPM Data Breach Victims
Imposters pretending to be from the FTC are offering money to OPM data breach victims, and “all you need to do is give him some information,” wrote FTC Consumer and Business Education Division attorney Lisa Weintraub Schifferle in a blog…
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post Wednesday. One scammer has identified himself as Dave Johnson from the FTC’s office in Las Vegas, she said. The FTC doesn’t have an office in Las Vegas and won’t ask for personal information or give money to OPM data breach victims, she said. Don’t trust caller ID, don’t wire money or put it on a prepaid debit card, and don’t provide personal or financial information unless you initiated a call and you know the number is correct, Weintraub Schifferle said. “Never provide financial information by email,” she said.