Lincoln County Sheriff’s Detective Robert M. McFetridge received information from a Boothbay resident who received a scam call.
According to McFetridge, a caller had stated to the resident, they were from AARP and were sending out a new AARP card. The caller asked verifying information such as telephone number and address.
The caller next asked the call recipient for banking information, again stating that it was needed for verification.
When question about why AARP would need such information the caller became very insistent that they had to have it.
The call recipient revealed the bank’s name. The caller said, ‘I am going to read to you the first set of numbers from your account. I will then need you to read me the second set of numbers.’
The call recipient then pointed out the second set of numbers were in fact the account number and that if the caller had the number in front of them they could read it. The caller hung up with out any further comment.
The telephone number that showed up on caller ID appeared to be a scam number – when it was called, it stated it’s an invalid number.
Although this is a variation of an old scam Det. McFetridge said he had not heard about this one in this area.
McFetridge asks the community to please remember to never give out banking information to someone over the phone that one doesn’t know.
