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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Since we’re back on the subject of scam calls, I’d like to mention that people can rather easily spoof another’s number, and could thus spoof the calls of the local police. I’ve experienced this myself.
Don’t you just love it when they say they are concerned about us getting scammed? Truth is that they don’t take it seriously nor do they do anything about it. Florida has a law that makes using the registry to harass, target….. illegal. But the cops in this state won’t do a damn thing. And if we defend ourselves the cops will of course arrest us for that. It’s disgusting.
So apparently, according to the Newsweek article, the scammer was currently incarcerated (i.e., in prison) when he made the calls? 🤔
Yes, I mentioned that the scammer was incarcerated in a Georgia state prison the other day when FAC previously posted about it.
How was he able to dfo it? You’d think the media would ask that question, too.
Here’s a solution, abolish the sex offender registry!
It sucks but I would rather be scammed than the victims that are old ladies living alone that are trusting. Smooth-talking, good-looking salesmen go to their doors and sweet talk them. A few weeks later, the elderly person is being evicted as the scammer made a contract with his name on it and got the house, and the police come and evict the elderly from their own homes.
Sometimes it gets corrected, and the person is arrested but the damage is done.
Theres a scammer in every sector of the world. smdh