DISH Network scam targets local customers

SEELEY LAKE –Seeley Lake residents have been the target of a phone scam with the caller and number posing as DISH network. DISH Network advises customers to not give out their account number, last name, pin number or credit card number over the phone. Instead, hang up, block the number and call DISH directly and report the call to their fraud department.

Seeley Lake resident Rick Derry said three different times during the week of March 10 he received fraudulent calls from someone posing as a representative from DISH. His caller ID showed the call was from 1-800-333-3434, Dish Network’s number...