SOSEN: Reports of another scam targeting sex offenders
From SOSEN.ORG
The following is from one of our member families.
We had a scare yesterday. Someone called saying they were from (our) County Sheriff’s Department and that my loved one had moved without reporting it within three days. They wanted $2,000 dollars to cover his court fees then directed us to a specific street downtown which is where my loved one’s registration office is located. They indicated he would not be arrested, but would have to show up in court next Friday. They kept him on the phone and said he could not hang up while driving. He was very upset and drove to the bank. I went with him and tried to convince him it might be a scam. When we got to the bank I called the County Sheriff’s Department and they said it was NOT true. He then called his PO and was told it is a scam that is going on and he had heard it from others. Her loved one was finally convinced. He suffers from a TBI injury and PTSD from the military which made the panic worse.
Please, if you get any such call wanting you to respond with money hang up and call your registry office or police department and report it immediately. Any such call that you receive via phone or by mail please recognize it for what it is…a scam.
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” a detective if had enough evidence would just come to arrest me not bargain with me. ”
Exactly, that is what a detective told me as well. They won’t call you, they would get an arrest warrant, come to your door and handcuff you. No bargaining.
The same thing has happened to me last October and I called the sheriff’s dept and they said it was a scam. The calls and threats kept on coming in and I had to change my phone number.,