(Atlantic, Iowa) – The Cass County Sheriff’s Office today (Thursday), said that yesterday (Wed., May 18th), they made aware of a SCAM phone call involving the name of “Officer Marc Freeman”.  This scam call involving “Officer Marc Freeman” also involved an alleged Agent from Washington DC.  The scammers are informing potential victims that their financial accounts are being / have been frozen and that the account owners need to purchase and load money onto gift cards.

After this purchase, these scammers will then later request the information contained within said gift cards.  During this scam, it appears that the Cass County Sheriff’s Office phone number was also “spoofed”, as one of the phone numbers used in this scam was noted as the Sheriff’s Office phone number of 712-243-2206. 

Please be aware that this phone call is a SCAM and is not coming from “Officer Marc Freeman” OR any Federal Agent(s).  Furthermore, this office encourages people to NOT give personal information and/or financial information out over the phone.  If you receive a phone call from our office line of 712-243-2206 but you feel that it might be part of a scam, please feel free to disconnect from that call and call the same number back.

Your return call will be connected to our office phone line or the Cass County Communications Center and will not return back to the potential scammer(s).  If you have any questions regarding this scam or others like it, please contact our office at 712-243-2206 or your local law enforcement agency, respectively.