Fraud Task Force Gets the Facts

The Orange County Fraud Education Task Force’s first meeting in mid-October drew representatives from the FBI and Secret Service as well as officials from local consumer agencies and banks.

Officials at the Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Orange County, which is coordinating the group, said they had begun collecting information for a resource list that will define which types of complaints each agency handles. CCCS also plans to start circulating a bimonthly newsletter summarizing fraud trends and variations reported by task-force members.

The task force was designed to serve as a clearinghouse for fraud information, directing complaints to the right place and helping consumers pick through the region’s confusing tangle of enforcement agencies.

The group’s next meeting is scheduled for January.