LaSalle police warn Canadians about phone scammers impersonating police officers

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The LaSalle Police Service is informing radical crossed Canada astir a scam involving callers who are cloning the force's telephone number.

Someone is cloning the LaSalle Police Service telephone number, officials said

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· Posted: Mar 28, 2025 3:42 PM EDT | Last Updated: 9 minutes ago

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A idiosyncratic uses a compartment telephone successful Ottawa connected Monday, July 18, 2022. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)

The LaSalle Police Service is informing radical crossed Canada astir a scam involving callers who are cloning the force's telephone number.

The caller claims to beryllium a constabulary serviceman and notifies the idiosyncratic connected the different extremity of the line that they person been a unfortunate of individuality theft, the constabulary work said successful a quality merchandise issued Friday.

The callers cognize the archetypal and past names of the targets and volition provide fictitious badge numbers and report/occurrence numbers.

Police say the calls are a scam, and the work would not notify idiosyncratic of individuality theft successful this manner.

Anyone who receives specified a telephone should promptly bent up the telephone and not merchandise immoderate idiosyncratic information.

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