Middletown police warn that scammers are tricking residents by pretending to be newspaper employees.
Police said the scam goes a bit like this: Residents who placed ads in the Bucks County Courier Times received phone calls recently from a scammer claiming to be from the Tullytown-based newspaper. The scammer told the victims that the credit card to pay for the ad was declined and they needed to provide another credit card to settle the bill.
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The victims who contacted the newspaper were told their were no problems with their credit cards used to pay for their ads and learned the call requesting a new payment was a scam.
