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I’m writing to inform you of a scam that was pulled on my husband who is a sex offender last night in hopes you can share with others so it doesn’t happen to them. He received a phone call from a man claiming to be a deputy from SPOT. Long story short, he convinced my husband that he missed his registration because he wasn’t told that he now needed to register quarterly instead of every 6 months. In order to not be arrested, he told him that he could place a bail deposit of $500 and then he could register at the sheriff’s office and not be booked into jail. After instructing him to purchase a prepaid money pak from Walgreens, he then asked for the card number of the money pak so he could enter it in the system before he arrived at the sheriff’s office. My husband became very skeptical at this point and did not give him the number, went to the sheriff’s office, which was closed and basically pushed the man’s buttons until he exploded, calling him a “kid fucker” and saying he made $5,500 off of sex offenders this week. I am glad he didn’t scam him out of the $500, but furious that someone is taking advantage of sex offenders because they are so scared to get arrested for something they didn’t know they did wrong. I am also terrified because our address is listed online and he could come to our house at any time. I hope you can tell others about this so they can verify won they are talking to if it happens to them. This man knew a lot about SPOT and the process of registering as a sex offender.

 

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