Insurance producers in Colorado are being warned not to give personal information to anyone posing as a state employee, a scam that first surfaced in California and then Nevada.
Colorado Division of Insurance Commissioner Marcy Morrison said insurance firms and agents are being contacted by identity thieves posing as a worker for the division.
In the scam, the caller says the insurance provider has failed to file a form with the state and must pay a penalty or risk cancellation of their license.
The form doesn’t exist, Morrison said, and the scammers request credit-card information to pay the phony penalty.
“We’ve received very few reports,” Morrison said, but she wanted warnings to go out quickly before it became a problem.
“It’s not the policy, practice or procedure for the (division) to assess penalties or request credit-card information over the telephone,” Morrison said. “In fact, we do not accept credit cards for fines, surcharges or penalty payments.”
David Migoya: 303-954-1506 or dmigoya@denverpost.com
