Alert: Criminals Posing as DEA Employees

THE CHICAGO Medical Society has been contacted by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to relay an alert to our physician community and request your help. The DEA is aware that registrants are receiving telephone calls and emails from criminals identifying themselves as DEA employees or other law enforcement personnel. Criminals have masked their telephone number on caller ID by showing the DEA Registration Support 800 number.

Please be aware that a DEA employee would not contact a registrant and demand money or threaten to suspend a registrant’s DEA registration.

If you are contacted by a person purporting to work for the DEA and seeking money or threatening to suspend your DEA registration, you are urged to submit information through “Extortion Scam Online Reporting” posted on the DEA Diversion Control Division’s website, www. DEADiversion.usdoj.gov.

For more information, contact the local DEA Field Office in your area: https://apps.deadiversion. usdoj.gov/contactDea/spring/fullSearch. Registration Service Center: 1-800-882-9539. Email: DEA. Registration.Help@usdoj.gov.