In a significant development, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), has reportedly warned that a phone con is being allegedly performed in the nation at the present. The victims normally happen to be those cooling their heels to hear from the immigration body.
As per the immigration body, the applicants anticipating contact from USCIS should desist from making any payments to those who claim to be from immigration body over the phone. Allegedly, some charlatans have in some way gained the names of those waiting for a response from the organization even as the same places them (the candidates) at the imposters’ mercy.
They phone the aspirants claiming to represent the USCIS. They afterwards ask for personal data, including social security number, ‘A-number’ (Alien registration number), or passport number. The play-actors afterwards claim to have detected certain indiscretions in the submission or the petition presented by the aspirant. They then demand a nominal charge to allegedly correct the abnormalities.
These swindlers allegedly employ a system called ‘Caller ID spoofing’; it’s a technique of ensuring wrong information comes into view in the caller ID region of the receiver’s phone. And so, those who gain such a call should strictly decline to given any payment. Those who get such a call must, in fact, hang up the phone, without delay.
Immigration US by no means seeks any kind of payment and/or personal data over the phone, and so the aspirants must never give any payment or personal facts over the phone to those who claim to be speaking on the USCIS’ behalf.
