This scammer couldn’t fool City Hall.
On Oct. 11, an unknown person using a Gmail account and Google Voice phone number posed as the mayor of Bel Aire and requested the Bel Aire court clerk to purchase $1,500 in iTunes gift cards as gifts for city staff. The scammer also contacted other city staff with the same request.
With each, the scammer instructed staff to keep the transaction “top secret” because the cards were secret gifts.
Neither the Bel Aire court clerk nor any other city staff fell for the scam.
Read more: Ark Valley News.