scams

The Wyoming Department of Health recently announced that some Medicaid clients on the receiving end of a text message scam.

Casper Police are saying that scammers have moved beyond phone calls and are now entering the high tech realm of cryptocurrency and other technology-based scam opportunities.

Police contacted the supposed seller, but she said that her Facebook account had been hacked and that she had never had any puppies for sale.

The Casper Police Department recently made residents aware of a scam that was designed to extort money from a Casper community member.

Scammers are trying to take advantage of the data breach with various email phishing scams, claiming to be from Equifax and asking people to provide personal information.

The scammers are apparently using the phony attack warning as an attention-getter to spread the scam post on Facebook.

The post goes on to say that the sheriff's office will never ask people for personal information or to make any kind of payment over the phone.

If the intended victim doesn't hang up, the caller asks for driver's license info as well as social security numbers insurance information, and other sensitive personal details.

Taxpayers are encouraged not to engage potential scammers online or on the phone.

In some parts of the country, con artists are going door-to-door selling phony test kits.