GA: Scammers threatening to label victims as sex offenders unless they pay
Updated with video: https://www.foxcarolina.com/2026/06/10/deputies-scammers-threatening-label-victims-sex-offenders-unless-they-pay/
The Elbert County Sheriff’s Office is warning of scammers threatening false public notices labeling people as sex offenders unless money is paid.
The sheriff’s office said these claims are fraudulent.
According to the sheriff’s office, anyone who receives a call like this:
Do not send money
Do not provide personal information
Hang up immediately
Report the incident to law enforcement
Anyone who was contacted by these scammers is asked to call the sheriff’s office.
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Hey all Yesterday I too received a call from an unknown number like a dope i answered he said he was from the sheriff department and needed to speak to me. I told him he had the wrong number. 10 minutes later my wife gets the same call but she doesn’t answer and no message was left. I called the non emergency line at the sheriff department and she said it was a scam call and said dont answer those. If we wanted you we wouldn’t call.
Once again and they say this is not punishment. I get massive anxiety the two times I have to go in a year. Literally sick but until its over we gotta do it I guess.
Anyone notice how short and bland the article was? Almost like whoever wrote was forced to write it. Getting ONLY the requirements to even be an article of news. No depth. No examples. No witnesses. Minimal reporting.
ONCE again, the registry brings out the scammers. And law enforcement often doesn’t care. When I called law enforcement when the fake cop demanded money, when I called the sheriff’s office, their response was, come in and file a report.
Which we hope you did!
FAC
I did report it to the sheriff’s office online per their request. No follow up or anything. They basically told me there is nothing they could do unless you know their name and they said the phone # that called me was probably a fake phone #. I am not alone with this, however, unlike some, I refused to give any money and told the “So called deputy” we could meet at the sheriff’s office lobby but he refused.
Then he somehow got my parents phone # and called my elderly parents. Luckily my Dad is former military and a pretty smart man and he called me once he got the call and wanted to know what was going on. I begged my Dad to not give them money and he told me “I am not stupid” lol
I had a similar issue. They said it was probably a fake number generated by whatsapp. They said they couldn’t track the person because they change the number daily. I pointed out that the number was still in use and that it was active.
The scammer called back while I was at the Sheriffs department. They still refused to do anything. So right in front of the deputy I told the scammer to give me a location to meet him so I could turn myself in. When I told the deputy that I was going to handle it old school since he didn’t want to do his job he warned me that if I did anything to the scammer I would be arrested.
So much for equal protection under the law.
Fact is that it’s probably cops doing these scams.
Keep in mind they likely would send an unwitting money mule to pick up the cash, so you would be exacting retribution on an innocent person potentially. They’ve thought of this already too.
If you were really going to go full TAKEN on the scammer, you’d have to get the mule to agree to tell you the drop off location, then handle your business there. I wouldn’t be surprised, however, if the onion was even more layers deep – with a romance scammer getting the receiver to deposit and then wire the money overseas, or convert to bitcoin.
In any event, if they’re experienced, they’ve thought of all of these contingencies before they ever made the first call. It is likely an act of futility to chase these criminals down.
I’m not condoning any illegal acts. That said, it would be strategically revealing if a victim extorted by a criminal enterprise — one that threatens to place them on (or make them appear on) the registry unless they pay — suffers real harm and then sues the government for damages caused by the registry’s weaponization and misuse.
Officially, it’s just a “civil,” non-punitive clerical measure according to the same authorities that have rewritten laws and shielded elites to protect the Epstein A-listers and the Congress s3x slush fund crowd..Yet if enough victims hit the government with civil lawsuits for tangible harms (lost livelihood, housing, safety), the financial pressure could become its Achilles’ heel.
Core question: If SCOTUS has done geriatric gymnastics to protect it from constitutional attack as non-penal, can they still shield the state from ordinary civil liability and restitution claims? This legal-financial route may succeed where direct challenges have failed.