Credit card scam hits area businesses

Scam artists have been posing as police officers in Carroll and other Baltimore region counties to try to get credit card information from businesses, officials said.

Employees refused to give the information when a man saying he was a Carroll sheriff?s deputy called Pizza Hut in South Carroll and another in Finksburg and another caller posing as a Westminster police officer at Rafael?s restaurant in Westminster, said Lt. Phil Kasten, spokesman for the Carroll sheriff?s office.