FAIRFIELD — Authorities are searching a person pretending to be a police officer during what police describe as spoofing phone calls to community residents.
The calls appear to come from 707-428-7300, which is the correct number for the Fairfield Police Department.
“The Fairfield Police Department is aware that an individual has been calling members of the community and impersonating one of our officers,” police said Friday in a press release. “In all likelihood the individual, an unknown male, is using an app to ‘spoof’ the agency’s number as part of a scam.”
“Spoofing” makes it appear as though someone is calling from a local number when they are not.
Residents contacted report the man claims to be conducting an investigation and, when leaving a voicemail, requests an “urgent call back” to a completely different number, police said in the press release. The number currently being provided by the scammer is 909-236-7292, but that number may change.
Police report that a criminal investigation is currently underway into these incidents. In the meantime, police advise anyone who receives an unexpected call from someone claiming to be a Fairfield police officer to immediately terminate the call and phone dispatchers directly at 707-428-7300 to confirm whether they have indeed been contacted by one of the department’s officers.
Police advise that people never share any sensitive personally identifiable information over the phone, to include birth…
