Pott. Co. S/O phone scam going around
February 20th, 2015 by Ric Hanson
A message today from Pottawattamie County Sheriff Jeff Danker: Danker says the Sheriff’s Office (S/O) has received multiple complaints from citizens today reporting that a person purporting to be with the S/O has called their residence and stating that someone from their family is in jail and in need of bond money, or that they have an outstanding citation or warrant for their arrest and if they do not pay the caller by purchasing green dot cards and providing the card numbers or by depositing funds into a pay pal account they will be arrested.
Danker says the Sheriff’s Office does not contact public with those types of requests for money or payment of any kind. When the public receives calls with threats of arrest or any other method of intimidation for the purpose of exploiting money from them the call is fraudulent and should be immediately terminated.
Anytime a person receives a call like this and they question the validity, they should follow up with their local law enforcement agency.