Fraud and Identity Theft
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Fraud and Identity Theft
Fraud and identity theft programs and special events, such as National Consumer Protection Week and Mississippi Consumer Education Month, teach consumers how to recognize and take steps to avoid current consumer rip-offs
Contact your local Family Financial Management State Specialist who can provide programs, publications, or other resources on a variety of topics.
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Scams come in a variety of disguises, and some of them are very convincing. It can be especially hard to ignore phone calls from what appears to be a legitimate community business, organization or individual. But those calls could be coming from scammers anywhere in the world. Telemarketers out to defraud customers use caller ID spoofing to intentionally hide their identity by falsifying the information transmitted to someone’s caller ID.
Adding insult to injury, attempts at fraud always increase during times of crisis, a reality many Mississippians are experiencing during the COVID-19 pandemic.