Anchorage police said they would never call anyone to request payment for anything, but people still can fall victim to elaborate phone scams.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The caller ID reads “Anchorage Police Department,” and the phone number checks out — but it’s not really them.An Anchorage couple who had just had a newborn baby days earlier was almost scammed out of $6,000 by someone who they say was posing as a police sergeant on the phone.Aaron Bayer’s wife’s phone rang and the person on the other line claimed he was with APD and had a gag order, among other official-sounding terms that the couple said “had checked out.
Every piece of information stated on the phone with his wife, by someone posing as a police sergeant, using a court case to try to prove it, was accurate, the couple said. “Extremely scary, especially — my wife works in the medical field, and he was threatening her with losing her credentials if she didn’t comply,” Bayer said. “It was very scary, having a newborn baby at home. You can’t just get arrested if you have a newborn baby at home.”
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