Mount Posts Warning on Website of an FBI Scam
By Andrew Hoenig | Assistant Editor
MWCC, Gardner, Mass. – Warning! Students should be on alert as campus police have been notified by the FBI of a telephone scam specifically targeting college students. Campus police are urging that students do everything they can to protect their personal identity at all times.
The scam was first reported by the FBI’s Milwaukee Division. The scam is directed primarily at college students using the FBI’s phone number on caller ID. The FBI received numerous calls from concerned students and parents at several colleges in Wisconsin. All reported that “someone who claims to be representing the U.S. government has been threatening to arrest the students if they fail to pay thousands of dollars.”