Crime & Safety

Lower Saucon Police Warn of Possible Phone Scam

Police say a man hung up on a resident when she wouldn't disclose personal information over the phone.

Lower Saucon Township police are warning residents of a possible phone scam following an Aug. 3 incident that involved a township resident.

According to a police department press release, the resident received a call from a man who stated "that PPL rates will be increasing by 25 percent in the near future, and he was offering a rate reduction plan."

The man then went on to tell the woman that the plan has been approved by the Public Utility Commission (PUC), police said.

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When the man asked the resident for her personal information, she told him that she would need to talk to her husband and asked for a phone number in order to call him back. At that point he hung up on her, according to police.

When the number he called the resident from was dialed, "his phone number came back 'not in service'," police added.

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"This is a reminder to all to be alert and never give out your personal information," police stated in the press release.


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