Phone Scams

The caller poses as a BOPU employee to get credit card information from victims.

Your Social Security number is not about to be suspended, regardless of what the caller may try to tell you.

This is strange enough so that some people may answer the call out of curiosity.

With many con artists using "spoofing", the calls can appear to originate in Wyoming.

The scam features callers claiming to be with the VA and asking for the last four digits of the intended victim's Social Security number.

The callers are often 'masking" their phone numbers to make it appear that they are calling from a Wyoming number when they are really out of state or even overseas.

The phone scam features a bogus phone number on caller ID to make the call seem more believable.

Some of the scams are well executed and sound very realistic.

The Equifax Credit Bureau won't call you up to "verify your account information."

Con artists posing as Internal Revenue Service agents are calling people up and demanding immediate payment of supposed back taxes, according to Dick Blust of the Sweetwater County Sheriff's Department