Convicted sex offenders are reaching out to Virginia State Police for help.
They’re concerned about a recent increase in phone call scams that seem to target them.
“The Virginia State Police are getting numerous calls from convicted sex offenders in the Northern Virginia region who are being told there is a warrant out for their arrest,” a Virginia State Police spokesperson advised.”The sex offender is advised not to call the Virginia State Police and that the only way to adjudicate the warrant is by paying off a fine.”
It is against Virginia law to use the Virginia Sex Offender Registry to intimidate or harassing the men and women on the list.
This very incident just happened to me last Saturday.
DUH. Then why are they permitting people to do so. You would think that they would have enough intelligence to try to find out who is behind the scam and go after them. I am sure if it was a matter of sexual child pornography they would invest every waking hour to find the perpetrators. Oh I’m sorry I thought they cared about their citizen welfare. My bad.
You would think they would apply effort into finding the perpetrators of the offenses in the images too.
Do we know of any case— any at all, anywhere— in which the perpetrators of these fake LE calls to registrants have been identified or prosecuted?
You’re so right all they care about how much money 💴 they really care to make off of us humans who doesn’t seem to have any left of freedom on Planet earth For sure
@ Frank:
If it was a matter of child pornography, odds are the perpetrators were the FBI or state counterparts. Wouldn’t have taken very many waking hours to find that.
This very thing happened to my husband 3 weeks ago here in AZ. After a 5 AM call from an officer, claiming my husband had to leave immediately to meet him at the local superior court to be interviewed re an active warrant for his arrest, the office kept us on an open phone line while we dressed to go and through a trip to that office. He also did not want me to come along but my husband assisted. Red flags began to emerge along the way and when the officer shifted the conversation to meeting him with money so he could help my husband avoid arrest and detention, we stopped at a Quik Stop and I ran in while husband kept him on the phone. Ironically I ran into a sheriff’s officer in there and he told me it was a scam. Husband hung up phone and we went home. Reported it to local police, also police checked and there was no warrant. This was terrorizing. Next time, we’ll know to immediately put the caller on hold while we check with police. Also, a warrant would be delivered in person to our door by the police or sheriff’s office
@ JoAnne:
Don’t know if it ever came up, but it might have been a better idea to take that sheriff with you to wherever the scammer wanted you to go than to hang up and go home.
Odds are you’ll never hear from that clown again. No telling about his friends and cohorts.
That sheriff’s deputy said he had just come off a 24-hr shift and was in a different dept – could not help us anyway. (I think he was very tired) But he did assure us it was a scam and told us to go home and report it to our local police, which we did. The perpetrator could have been in a another state (very poor phone connection), for all we know, and had an accomplice who would meet us for the money.
The feds should be involved in this because this is wire fraud, which is a federal felony. So, all the sex offenders should be demanding investigation from the FBI. See 18 USC 1343. Hope this helps someone
It is against Virginia law to use the Virginia Sex Offender Registry to intimidate or harassing the men and women on the list.
But that is what is going to happen when you have scamming opportunists and you will always have them no matter what. Put a public target sign on my back and not expect to be targeted ?? pfff…
feds not going to do squat sex offenders do qualify for help from LE
This problem would not exist if the registry was used strictly for law enforcement and not made public. Virginia can make all the laws it wants to about use of the registry but crooks couldn’t care less about Virginia’s rules. That’s why crooks are crooks.
Amen 🙏🏿 So true