NEW Scam targeting registrants
Courtesy of our affiliates at Texas Voices, we are learning of a new scam targeting persons on the registry.
People are receiving letters in the mail with no return address, but personalized to them. The letter demands payment of money via bitcoin or they will notify all their neighbors of their status, their employers, their family members’ associates, church congregation, etc.
A copy of this letter can be found here:Extortion Letter
If you receive this letter, notify the FBI immediately! You can find your local FBI office here: https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us
We MUST take action and insist law enforcement prepare a report and follow through. Enough is enough!
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Actually the scammere is no to bright as to demand $350.00 a month perhaps 10% or less of his targets can afford that
And this is exactly why the registry should not exist. For the nutballs that try to profit off of human beings that are trying to get on with their lives.
Depends what state don’t really depend on police to do report in florida they can care less right now there is amber alert for 5 year old with in second sentence they said sex offenders thanks for passinf the information alone noe time for all offenders to start fighting back
Linda and all, that is exactly why we must file reports at the federal level and show that the florida authorities wont do anything. Whenever something like this happens, we have the right to demand federal investigation into the violations of our civil rights and liberties. Shake the trees!
First, if this letter came through mail service they would need to contact the postal Inspection Service, as it’s their Jurisdiction. Their Investigators are Special Agents just like the FBI and they have arrest powers and will Investigate. Second, if they follow through on this, what can happen and by simply doing an Under Cover (UC) operation and have the person pay and they would be able to track it and would up the crime a level or two. These individuals are a bunch of scum bags, let’s hope people who are getting these letters have enough sense to follow through.
Big J – thanks for sharing the recording of the voicemail from the scammer that tried to get you. The information you shared was provided to the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, and they are now giving a letter to those who register warning them about the scam.
Unless I missed it, there is no way the person even knows who is paying him the money. I would of liked a photo of the envelopes the letters have been sent in as I would not be surprised if they are all from one area of the country (from the post office stamp, not the return address), if they even originate in the US, which I doubt.
I had a thought a while back and this thread would be as good a place as any to post it and see what others think. In the state of Florida (and pretty much elsewhere), “aiding and abetting” a crime is as if the person took place in the crime itself. So, if a registrant gets hurt (G-d forbid) or worse, someone in his/her family does, wouldn’t the Legislature be considered “aiding and abetting” since they put the registry together in the first place? In other words, if John Smith gets arrested for harming a registrant and is charged with battery, might members of the Legislature be held responsible for aiding and abetting since they provided the information that led to the crime?
Just asking the forum since I am not a legal eagle or anything. I am pretty sure there is a law that basically protects a legislator while doing his/her official duties, but might this argument hold any weight?
I believe they have absolute immunity meaning they don’t pay personally for their mistakes against humans only we do unless they step outside the law like colluding.