Newsweek: Sex Offenders Targeted by Scams
States nationwide have reported scammers impersonating police officers targeting people on the sex offender registry.
Multiple law enforcement agencies across the U.S. told Newsweek that the scams occur intermittently and are hard for officials to track, including how much money scammers have been successful in getting from victims.
“This has been something we’ve been aware of for a number of years now,” Rob Low, spokesperson for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI), told Newsweek. “CBI has informed all of our local agencies by email about this issue, so they are very aware of it.
“It was such an issue for a while, that in 2021 CBI developed a scam awareness form for the local agencies to distribute to their sex offenders. We have a trainer hand this out at training classes across the state.”
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Hey all just got a vm left from a Detective Campbell number was 727-349-9941. I blocked the number as it came over as spam
@Tearfuleagle
On the rare occasion my deputy calls me (like if I am not home more than 2 times in a row when he comes by) the call does not show any # at all. Usually how I know it was the deputy.
On another occasion, I got a missed call and called it back and it was a fill in deputy who did leave his #, probably because he did not want to have to chase me around for a month. He called me back and asked when I was going to be home so it worked out.
I moved to the county I am in because the last county I lived in, the entire police department and Sheriffs department harassed me numerous times a day. As soon as I was off probation I sold my house and moved to another county. I was taking a chance but it worked out. Been in this county now for over 20 years.
I have heard that almost all the panhandle counties in Florida are run by good-ole-boys sheriffs and not a place to feel safe. That is also ironically where the majority of Florida’s prisons are as well.
Not sure where to put this. Today I was watching ABC World news. Trump was speaking about deporting illegals. After ranting about that, he made a statement that sent chills up my spine. He stated that he was looking into deporting U.S citizens who have a major felony as he doesn’t want felons (We are ex-felons) ruining our country.
Not sure he has the power to do that, but he seems to do what he wants to do anyway and worry about it later. He didn’t say if it was those in prison or all people who have a felony on their record. He did saying something that may have been directed towards us. He said he wanted to get rid of a group of people then said “You know who I am talking about”, without saying who he meant.
We might have to build an F.A.C safe house to hide in.
This is why I’ve been open to discussions about self-sustaining registrant run communities. I’d like to build a city-state and secede from the USA. I have never been proud to be an American citizen, and in light of the comments made by the so-called ;eader of this fallenn nation about sending “home grown” persons to a foreign gulag, I’ve never been more disgusted at the nation that continues to entrap us.
And thanks to mIML there aren’t many other options for us. The US has convinced so many other nations to pass registries. Many refuse us entry. So we need to strongly consider a self-governing nation to ourselves.
I’ve had a number of such calls. I’ve reported every one of them to the local sheriff’s office. They could care less, would not make a report.
Insist on a report. They have to prepare one if you report a crime.
@Dr.
Although it didn’t do much, my sheriff’s office has a way to go online and make a police report. I have made several and they emailed back a few days later stating they accepted my report. Never got a follow up but was at least proof.