Thieves posing as city workers are fooling residents into letting them into their homes: The Baltimore’s Department of Public Works is warning residents to be on the lookout
for imposters. The Department of Public Works says homeowners need to be on the lookout for imposters.
“Every city employee has an employee ID badge that has their photograph on it, their name and the agency from where they work, so no one that poses as a Public Works employee that doesn’t have a picture ID that you can readily ask to check and look at,” said Robert Murrow.
If you have questions about a particular person, you can call 311. As always, you can call the Shomrim or NWCP as well.
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If someone knocks at the door, first ask, then let him in.
Common sense!
However,fake id’s are easy for crooks to get, Also.the photo-ID’s are useless since the photos never resemble the holders even when legit
Like #3 wrote, crooks can obtain fake IDs. What homeowners should do is if this kind of thing happens, whether someone claiming to be police, utility company worker, etc. shows up at the door: if you know you haven’t ordered this kind of service, you should phone the company the person claims to be representing and ask them if they’ve dispatched anyone to your address. Believe me, they’ll know if they have, especially the police department (should someone impersonating an officer ring your door bell). Baruch HaShem I live in a security building with doormen and consierge that would never allow anyone up to my home without verifying (through our condominium’s security department) that they are who they say they are, and that the homeowner is expecting them.
As a Baltimore resident, I have not received any notification from either Shomrim or NWCP, and I am on both mailing list. Please advise source of this. Thanks
I am also curious of the source of this. I looked at the Baltimore Sun website and the TV stations’ websites and haven’t found any website reporting this.
It is good advice in general but I am curious where the reporter got this story.
Perhaps the YWN editor or the reporter can let us know…
Editors Note: YWN received the info directly from city officials, but here is a link: http://wjz.com/local/city.workers.scam.2.732438.html?detectflash=false