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COLUMBUS The Ohio Department of Public Safety has received reports of a possible scam being perpetrated on Ohioans from scammers claiming to be from Ohio Homeland Security (OHS).
Ohio residents have reported receiving phone calls from scammers claiming to be from OHS and informing the call recipients that their identity had been stolen. Caller ID on these calls indicate the calls originated from the OHS main line 614.387.6171, but they did not; the Ohio Homeland Security main line was spoofed. Spoofing is when callers deliberately falsify the information transmitted to a caller ID display to disguise their identity.
Ohio residents have reported receiving phone calls from scammers claiming to be from OHS and informing the call recipients that their identities had been stolen.
A couple blocks from the Jolly Roger, congregants at the Free Will Baptist Church have been trying to wrap their heads around it, said Keith Pack, a church deacon.
“Just shocked that it would be in the small town of Woodstock,” said Pack, who lives near the town of fewer than 300 people.
Freddy Cruz, a Southern Poverty Law Center research analyst, agreed “it s shocking” that people from a place such as Woodstock would emerge into the spotlight through a bold insurrection that claimed five lives while hoping to overturn Republican Donald Trump s election loss.
While shocking, Cruz added, it shouldn t have been.