Connie Sperandeo took to social media this week to warn others of a scam she was unfortunately targeted by – one in which people are posing as officers of the St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office.
Sperandeo, who lives in Luling, said it all started on Friday when she missed a phone call. A voicemail identified the caller as Sgt. Jake Long, who said Sperandeo needed to call him back as soon as possible.
When she called, the person on the other end of the phone told Sperandeo that she had missed jury duty the prior day and that she had two options – she could either turn herself in and sit in jail for 72 hours or do a Zoom call with the judge.
“First of all, I argued with the man because I hadn’t received a jury duty summons and he blamed the mail service,” she said. “He said I had two citations for missing jury duty … one was $500 and the other was $1,500 plus court costs plus Zoom fees.”
In an interview with the Herald Guide, Sperandeo said there was no foreign accent detected by the men she spoke to, and that the caller ID on her phone indicted it was a call from St. Charles Parish.
“I reluctantly opted for the Zoom call and that’s where it happened,” she said. “He transferred me to Captain Jeremy Daniels, who said he needed my banking information so he could set up the Zoom call with the clerk of court’s office. I went back and forth with him for a while because I couldn’t wrap my head around why I needed to provide my banking info. for…
