Scammers continue to impersonate government officials, according to Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard.<\/p>\n
In a statement issued Friday, he appealed to residents to remember no one from his office will call or text demanding payments for any reason.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese scams are frustrating and robbing innocent citizens of their hard-earned money,\u201d Bouchard said, adding that scammers also pose as other government officials to demand money immediately.<\/p>\n
He said residents should end a phone call and ignore or delete email or text messages demanding money for missed jury service or to bond out a loved one from jail, adding \u201cif you get such a call that you did not initiate, don\u2019t believe it.\u201d<\/p>\n
One potential victim became suspicious when the caller gave accurate personal information about him and quoted laws he allegedly violated. The man hung up and called the sheriff\u2019s office. Another scammer posed as a sheriff\u2019s sergeant and read the woman\u2019s social security number to her. She called the serif\u2019s office instead of handing over cash, according to Bouchard.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Sheriff\u2019s Office would never use a social security number as an identifier for a person over the phone,\u201d Bouchard said.<\/p>\n
Other potential victims have called County Executive Dave Coulter\u2019s office to ask if the calls are legitimate.<\/p>\n
Bouchard said anyone concerned about such calls should call dispatchers at (248) 858-4950.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scammers continue to impersonate government officials, according to Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard. In a statement issued Friday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,2482,145,144,51003,51002],"class_list":["post-92554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-county-sheriffs-office","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-scam-callers","tag-sheriff-mike-bouchard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}