LIMA, OH (WLIO) - The West Ohio Food Bank helping their partner agencies stay informed to better serve their clients.
The meeting covered food safety, policies, and civil rights training.
Partner agencies from all 11 counties they serve attended their annual meeting. The meeting covered food safety, policies, and civil rights training. Because many of the agencies work with senior citizens, the Ohio Attorney General's Office had a representative to talk about senior scams and how to spot someone who is being ripped off.
They see a lot of romance and grandparent scams where people pretend to be someone else to get money out of the victim. And there are a lot of imposters out there too who claim they are from a company or agency to get information from potential victims.
You can find tips and report scams by going to the Ohio Attorney General's website at https://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/Home.
"People who claim to be from the government, people who claim to be from Amazon, eBay, or PayPal. I mean, who hasn't received a phony email from an imposter lately claiming to be a package deliverer from the post office or claiming to be from Amazon? These are just national sore spots when it comes to scamming," says Ryan Lippe, consumer educator from the Ohio Attorney General's office.
There have been people impersonating companies like Spectrum Cable and offering a senior deal, just to get information from their victims.
They see a lot of romance and grandparent scams where people pretend to be someone else to get money out of the victim.
"They'll use the real logo of an organization. They'll claim to have a badge number from the government. They'll claim to be Social Security, the IRS, the FBI, they'll claim to be executives with lots of big companies, they're tech support for lots of big companies, when really they're just imposters. So the important thing is, if you get a phone call, an email, a text message; don't reply. Don't call whatever phone number they're leaving for you. If you have questions, call the real company, the organization they are impostering directly that you have independently verified as legitimate," added Lippe.
You can find tips and report scams by going to the Ohio Attorney General's website at https://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/Home.
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