During the past few days the Pearl River County Sheriff’s Department has received complaints that scammers posing as county deputies are calling and asking for money.
Maj. Marc Ogden said reports state the scammer is calling local residents and attempting to convince them into giving him money because they have outstanding warrants.
“He’s calling people saying they have warrants they need to pay, and to take care of it they can go get some kind of money card and to send him the number and the pin,” said Ogden.
Ogden says this happens once or twice a year. So far this year, it’s occurred twice.
“There’s probably a lot more, there are people out there that don’t entertain it and hang up,” he said.
Investigators with the Pearl River County Sheriff’s Department are not currently investigating the issue at the moment because Ogden said the scam calls typically come from out of the country. In this case it’s out of the Sheriff’s Department jurisdiction.
“The best we can do is let everybody know that this is occurring and please do not fall for it,” Ogden said.
The Pearl River County Sheriff’s Department took to Facebook to deter local residents from falling for the scam.
The post reads as follows, “Public Service Announcement, someone has been calling and posing as a Pearl River County Deputy and is telling people they have outstanding warrants. He is trying to get people to send money to keep from going to jail. Do not fall for…
