February 20, 2017 - Panola College has received dozens of phone calls in the past few days reporting the problem of receiving a phone call from the College attempting to sell long-term health insurance and burial insurance. Panola College confirms these calls did not originate from the Panola College campus and is apparently the work of somebody using technology to mask the true source of the calls, commonly referred to as “caller ID spoofing” in the telecommunications industry.
Caller ID spoofers masquerade as representatives from other agencies by forging the display on your caller ID to manipulate callers into answering and giving out personal information.
Panola College would like to remind you that if you receive one of these calls to never give out personal information if you are at all suspicious of a phone call. If you get an inquiry from someone who says they represent a company or a government agency seeking personal information, hang up and call the phone number to verify the authenticity of the request.
If you receive a call and you suspect caller ID information has been falsified, you can file a complaint with the FCC at www.fcc.gov.
