TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) – The Toledo Police Division is warning residents to beware of a cell phone scam.

“We’re completely on guard round right here and my neighbors have all gotten collectively and we’re going to start out a Block Watch right here,” stated Mya Adrine.

Police stated a group of males pretended to want assist once they rang Mya Adrine’s doorbell final week.

Suspect: Do you have a phone so I can call my mother?

Home-owner: You can inform me your quantity I can call your mother.

Suspect: Alright, you need her quantity proper now?

Home-owner: Yep.

The suspect ripped the digital camera off the house. Adrine reported it to the police.

“They’re attempting to take telephones which are open so they can use the Apple Pay or Google to pay put cash on the scooters and the mopeds which are round city,” stated Adrine.

One other sufferer who desires to stay nameless was sitting on her porch when she heard youngsters knocking on another person’s door.

“I’m like what are you youngsters attempting to do? ‘Oh, I’m attempting to call my mother’,” the sufferer stated.

Being a useful particular person, she requested for his mother’s phone quantity, dialed it, and gave the child the phone.

“I simply thought these have been youngsters have been attempting to get house and he booked. He ran off,” the sufferer stated.

Toledo police are warning residents to not open their doorways to folks they have no idea.

Police say that these are remoted incidents and so they have not seen a rise on this sort of crime.

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