Beware of various telephone scams and how to deal with them

We have been notified that people are receiving scam calls disguised as our office number, stating they are from the "Temu Customer Service." The scammer will obtain the person's name, address, and phone number from somewhere else and try to convince them to provide information such as payment information and bank card numbers.

In some phone scams, they act friendly and helpful. In others, they threaten or try to scare you. They'll do what it takes to get your money or your personal information to commit identity theft. Don't give it to them. Here's what you need to know.

How To Recognize a Phone Scam

Phone scams come in many forms, but they tend to make similar promises and threats, or ask you to pay certain ways. Here's what to know.

1, Temu will not call you out of the blue to ask for your card number and other sensitive information and ask you to transfer money

2, Scammers may pretend to be law enforcement or a federal agency. They may say you will be arrested, fined, or deported if you don't pay your taxes immediately or that there is a criminal case. Their goal is to scare you into paying. But real law enforcement and federal agencies will not call and threaten you.

3, Scammers will often insist you pay in a way that makes it hard to get your money back - by wire transfer , gift card, cryptocurrency, or payment app. Anyone who insists that you can only pay that way is a scammer.

4, You don't have to make a decision right away. Most phone scammers will put pressure on you to make a decision on the spot.

How To Stop Calls From Scammers

1, A good way to deal with unwanted calls is to block them. Cell phones, home phones that make calls over the internet, and landlines each have their own call-blocking options. Some companies also offer call labeling. With call labeling, shady calls will still come through, but you'll see things like "spam" or "scam likely" on your phone's screen when they do. Then you'll decide whether to answer the call.

2, Don't trust your caller ID. Scammers can make any name or number show up on your caller ID. So even if the call appears to be from an official source such as a logistics service provider, or appears to be coming from a local number, it could be from a scammer anywhere in the world.