Uber driver spots scheme while picking up potential victim as passenger Michael P. Thomas, 61, of Clarkdale, a retired Pennsylvania police officer with the Ross Township Police Department who never stopped looking out for others, accepted a roughly $20 Uber...

Firefighters don't sell insurance. Scammers have been posing as representatives of the Sedona Fire District in an attempt to extort payment for medical services and sell "medical insurance," SFD warned residents on April 2. "The scammer didn't compromise any of our...

Staff at the Humane Society of Sedona received a phone call on Aug. 9 from a resident inquiring about how to make a payment of $1,200 for emergency surgery on their missing cat.  “We were confused because we didn’t, to...

In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made the first known phone call in which he uttered, “Mr. Watson, come here — I want to see you.” Chances are, the first phone scam occurred shortly thereafter.  A newer scam...