The Page County Sheriff’s Office reports they have received several complaints of phone scams where callers are attempting to obtain personal information from individuals for financial gain.  The callers sometimes do already have information about person’s credit / debit cards or bank accounts and are attempting to gain PIN numbers claiming they can offer better interest rates etc.

Sheriff Lyle Palmer says area residents need to be wary about these types of calls and it is not recommended to give out this type of information over the phone.  It is also not recommended that any personal information be given out as if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Once personal information is given out, it is usually too late to stop some of the charges that will be assessed to accounts.  This will usually leave the person in more financial turmoil than they were in prior to the call.

The Sheriff’s Office along with all other Law Enforcement agencies receives calls of scams numerous times a week.  Fortunately most of the Page County residents reporting these scams recognize them as just that, scams.  However there are some Page County residents that have been “taken” by these scams and usually loose thousands of dollars when it happens.  These scams are virtually impossible to solve and harder to recover lost funds.  Most of the calls come from out of the United States.  Callers have developed a way to appear to be calling from a phone number within the United States, but are actually physically located outside of our borders.