Kentucky State Police have reported a continued increase in scams recently involving requests for personal information and money.
Some of these scams have victims deposit money into bitcoin machines or sending money via other methods. Other scams purport to be law enforcement officials or government officials requesting personal information over the phone or by emails with fake documents.
These scams involve unsolicited texts or phone calls to victims’ phones requesting money and/or personal information.
Do not respond to these scams by clicking on the link or responding to the text message. These are scams.
KSP encourages the public to contact authorities should they experience or become the victim of these types of scams.
Law enforcement officials will never request you to send money in any method during a legitimate investigation. Further, any law enforcement officer or agent will never conduct investigations entirely over the phone without identifying themselves in person first with the proper badge and credentials.
These scams utilize urgency and fake investigators to lure their victims into providing personal information or funds to the scammers. Police said that once funds and personal information is sent to the scammers, they are impossible to recover.
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