Law roundup: Spoofed caller ID tricks bank customer

A Kalispell woman reportedly answered a call that appeared on caller ID as a local bank and provided personal banking information to the person on the other end of the line who claimed they identified potentially fraudulent charges they needed to verify. They asked for her username and password to access her online banking account to "block the charges" before they went through and "prevent further access."  She was then reportedly sent a text to verify something else from the caller.    

She then saw an allegedly fraudulent transfer of $450 from her account to an unidentified account via the app, Zelle. She called her bank and was told that they did not call her and would never ask for a username or password over the phone. She was told to get a police report to help with reimbursement. A Flathead County Sheriff's deputy advised her that they would write a short narrative documenting what she described in addition to advising her on methods to protect herself from future scams.    

For more information about caller ID spoofing, visit fcc.gov/consumers/guides/spoofing. 

Someone who allegedly takes electronics in to be recycled received hard drives containing child pornography and called deputies.   

Deputies later received a call from someone in Kalispell who was getting messages from someone trying to extort money from her, stating she "had until noon today" to comply.   

An "elderly lady" reportedly passed vehicles at a high rate of speed on Montana 35 in Kalispell and then brake-checked a vehicle repeatedly. Fed up, the other driver reported the speed demon to deputies.   

A Kalispell resident was suspicious of a vehicle that allegedly kept driving past their house, turning around and coming back before stopping in the neighbor's driveway where a man was arguing with a woman.