JUNEAU POLICE DEPARTMENT
6255 ALAWAY AVENUE JUNEAU, ALASKA 99801
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INFORMATION RELEASE
Date: 2018-03-10
From: Lieutenant Krag Campbell
Case or Incident: #N/A
The Consumer Protection Unit of the Alaska Attorney General?s Office has sent out an alert that phone scams are on the rise in Alaska. Old scams come with new, personalized slants to entice victims. Several victims in Alaska have reported being taken for thousands of dollars in recent weeks by scammers.
The original alert was posted on the Consumer Protection Unit website. Please follow the below link to the original post which provides information on various types of scams reported throughout Alaska.
http://law.alaska.gov/press/consumer_alerts/2018/0318-PersonalizedScams.html
If you are the victim of an online or phone scam, you may contact the Juneau Police Department to file a police report. You may also file an online report with the Federal Borough of Investigations Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) at https://www.ic3.gov.
The IC3.gov website also provides internet crimes prevention tips, as well as a list of different internet crime schemes.
All factual allegations contained in this release are based upon preliminary investigation and are subject to change or clarification as the investigation continues. Any charges reported in this release are merely accusations and all persons named in this release are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.