Last Updated on October 8, 2025
Scams/Frauds
Recent Unsolicited Request Spams
Recent scams have featured unsolicited requests. Here's an important reminder from Merrill-Lynch: Never respond to an unsolicited text or pop-up instructing you to click on a link or to install security software. Clicking on unsolicited links or downloading software...
Scam Warning of an Account Takeover
A relatively new scam has callers, texters and emailers warning of an account takeover. Thieves purporting to be from your bank, police, FBI, FTC or Homeland Security are telling victims that they must move their money or risk losing it. They then steer the victim to...
Scam Warning
Scam Warning The FBI told 60 Minutes on June 1st that all of our personal information – name, address,Social Security Number, etc. – is available on the dark web, where fraudsters buy, sell and trade stolen information and illicit goods online. Nation states and...
Recent Scam about Erickson Advantage
A Charlestown resident received a scam telephone call. The caller ID said Erickson Living with phone number 410-314-2702, which seems like other Charlestown numbers. The resident verified with Erickson Advantage that they would “never make such a call.” Be careful...
Scam Warning
Updated Scam Warning Experts estimate that over 80% of Americans have received data breach notices in the last year. Medical and personal information of one-third of us were stolen from Change Healthcare, which processes US medical data. We must assume that criminal...