FBI hosts program on scam awareness in Bowling Green
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Recently, there has been an uptick in scams, so the Federal Bureau of Investigation held a program to teach people about what to expect.
At the Knicely Conference Center on WKU’s campus in Bowling Green, Supervisory Special Agent William Kurtz spoke to members of the community on what types of scams he sees frequently, and gave some tips on how to combat them.
Some of the scams Kurtz has been seeing a lot of involve cryptocurrency, romance fraud, imposters, and of course, those pesky tolls that have been popping up more and more recently.
He says there are three things you should do to avoid the possibility of being scammed.
“Don’t click on links that you don’t know, don’t respond to messages from people that you haven’t befriended, that you don’t have saved as a contact… and certainly, most of all, don’t ever send money to anybody that you’ve not met in person or a business that you actually know exists, meaning you’ve seen a brick and mortar store, you verify that they are a legitimate business. Just take that breath, and I think that’ll mitigate a lot of the losses,” Kurtz says.
He also says if you feel you have been a victim of a scam, break off contact immediately, stop sending money and report it to the Internet Crime Complaint Center.
