Scam message themes include package delivery, Zoom meeting details, personal video alerts, and even COVID-19 test results.
These messages will almost always include a link to a website that prompts you to download an app or enter your username and password. The tone of these messages is similar to email scams that push urgency, threatening delays, loss, or embarrassment. The number of scam messages sent via SMS has been particularly high. “If it’s somebody either online or over the phone asking you to download a site, we would encourage the homeowner to hang up,” Burke said.Make sure you’re aware of what to look out for when it comes to current scams, and get some tips on how to protect yourself and your devices. The Sheriff’s Office reminds residents to be on high alert when someone is trying to walk them through navigating a website or downloading links. The potential victim became suspicious and hung up without downloading the site, Burke said. Incidentally, there was a power outage the day a La Plata County resident was called, which lent legitimacy to the scam, he said. “The fear is that one would have their accounts hacked, their banking information and things like that,” Burke said. The victim is then asked to download an update from a website called .īut allows people to control a computer remotely, which then allows a person to access documents and passwords on that computer, said Chris Burke, spokesman with the Sheriff’s Office. The so-called technician calls a household and explains the person needs to reboot his or her computer because of a power outage that occurred in the area. The La Plata County Sheriff’s Office is warning residents of a scam that took place last week in which someone claimed to be a CenturyLink technician, but was really trying to gain access to the potential victim’s computer.
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