FLORENCE-The Florence Police Department on Friday, August 31 issued press release concerning a credit card scam that has been taking place in tthe Shoals area:
“Over the past few weeks we have received several reports of a scam that is taking place. Individuals are reach out to victim either by phone or social media to scam money from the victims. They are asking the victims to get prepaid visa cards, iTunes cards, or other types of prepaid cards. They then will have the victim take photos of the cards and send them the pictures. Once the pictures are send they will instruct the victim to cut up the cards and dispose of them.
This is not a business practice of any legitimate business. We ask everyone do not do this. If you receive a call asking you to do this and you feel it is real, please contact your local law enforcement or the Better Business Bureau. Also if you have friends on your social media accounts that you do not know, delete them. Do not accept friend request from anyone you do not know, even if 28 of your friends are friends with them.
Do not send money to any person or company that you do not know or you are not doing business with.”
