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Bridgeport police warn of IRS phone scam

Bridgeport police say that residents of the Park City have been flooded with telephone calls over the past two weeks from scam artists claiming to represent the Internal Revenue Service. Investigators

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Aug 7, 2016, 10:03 PM

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