A reminder of the scammers out there
There have been many posts at our website about the scammers who are targeting registrants, but, unfortunately, people are still falling for them.
Many scammers demand gift cards, which sends up a warning flag. Apparently, some scammers in North Carolina realize that people are no longer falling for the gift card setup, so they are asking for cash.
As long as some registrants are getting caught up in these scams, we need to keep warning people about them as there are new people all the time coming to our site who are unaware of how these scammers operate.
Please comment on tactics used by scammers to educate unsuspecting registrants about what to avoid.
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I want to put this out there. I live in Orlando, FL and I am on vacation for tge week of June 3rd – 10th in Sarasota, FL. After checking in the the county Monday like I am suppose to. Thursday morning I got a call from someone with the area code 941 which is Sarasota county. They left me a message telling me this was a sheriff. So I called them back to see what was the call for. They started talking to me saying I did not comply with the state rules and I didn’t do my figure printing like I was suppose to. The system was out when I was doing my check in here. They ended up doing my thumb print with black ink. He made it sound serious that I was in trouble. I almost fell for it. He said if I hang up the phone I would be arrested. Nothing was adding up after 10 minutes of talking. I kept saying to him I will go to county sheriff office and check with them. He said we don’t operate that wat sure. I hung up on him and called the number I had for the county sheriff office. I was told to go to website and look to see if there was a warrant out for me. I typed my name in and nothing came up. This was a scam.