San Diego Police said the scam isn’t new but the fact that scammers were able to mimic the Northern Division’s phone number is new. Lewis asked to speak with Officer Bailey but the person who answered the phone said they didn’t have an Officer Bailey on staff. The number belonged to the San Diego Police Department’s Northern Division headquarters, but they didn’t make the call. He hung up again and decided to look up the 858 number. “Be down here in half-an-hour or we are going to send a team down there to have you arrested,” recalled Lewis. The number that appeared on his phone had an 858 area code. Lewis said the alleged “Officer Bailey” raised red flags in his head. “Two seconds later I got a call from somebody claiming to be Officer Bailey at the Eastgate Mall Northern Division San Diego Police Department.” Lewis still hung up, convinced it was a scam. “You owe us $1,152 and you can either pay that now or go to court.” “You hang up the phone, we’re going to come arrest you, right now,” Lewis heard the voice say. The San Diego man said he thought it was another phone scam until the caller threatened him. “‘I’m with the Criminal Investigation Fraud Department for IRS,’” Chuck Lewis recalled the voice saying on the phone. San Diego Police were notified Friday about a new scam that appears to use the number for their Northern Division Headquarters.Ī 10News viewer said he got a call on his smartphone Thursday while at work.
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