JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The FBI Jacksonville Field Office wants to warn you about the latest scheme designed to take your money and personal information.<\/p>\n
Agents say scammers are impersonating law enforcement or government agents. Fraudulent emails may look real because they include pictures of the FBI director, FBI credentials, and\/or the FBI seal or letterhead.<\/p>\n
The scams start with a text, email or phone call. Caller ID information is spoofed, so the calls actually look like they\u2019re coming from legitimate sources, like your bank.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n If you get an email, look closely for misspellings, missing words or incorrect grammar. Those are tell-tale signs of a scam. The text and calls will often come with a deadline to rush you to take action without thinking it through.<\/p>\n Remember this – law enforcement will never contact you by phone or email, threatening an arrest or demanding money. Agents will never ask you to use your money to help catch a criminal. And they\u2019ll never ask you to send money via wire transfer to foreign accounts, cryptocurrency or gift\/prepaid cards.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n If you believe you have been a victim of this scam, stop all contact with the scammers immediately and notify your bank. Contact local law enforcement and file a report. You can also file a complaint with the FBI IC3 at www.ic3.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The FBI Jacksonville Field Office wants to warn you about the latest scheme designed to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117,11176],"class_list":["post-239070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}