62 Precinct cops warn residents to beware of money scams; crooks pose as IRS agents, doctors, utility companies
You get a phone call from a person claiming to be from a utility company telling you that you owe a lot of money in delinquent bills and that your service is going to be cut off unless you pay up immediately. The caller instructs you to purchase a gift card from a store for the amount owed and send it to them.
Or you get a call from someone purporting to be an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agent informing you that you owe thousands of dollars in back taxes and that you will be arrested if you don’t pay up pronto.
Or the call comes from a person identifying him or herself as a doctor telling you your beloved son/daughter/nephew was in a car accident and is in the hospital in need of money to pay the medical bills.