APD Warns Public About Phone Spoofing Scams: The Atlanta Police Department has recently been made aware of someone using several APD numbers to make threatening phone calls to citizens and demanding money to clear citations. APD will not call you soliciting money to clear an outstanding warrant or parking ticket. This tactic is commonly known as phone spoofing and it occurs when a scammer makes a false number appear on your caller ID, in an attempt to impersonate someone else. Officer Anthony Gr