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<\/p>\nCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KOAA) \u2014 A Central Springs woman reached out to News5 after receiving a concerning phone call from a man claiming to be with the U.S. Marshals Service and the Department of Justice. He told her she missed jury duty and had a warrant out for her arrest.<\/p>\n
Jennifer Cecil discovered the man who called her was not a sergeant with the El Paso County Sheriff\u2019s Office because she went straight to the source.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought, well, gosh, I’ll just go on down to the sheriff’s office. It’s right here,” Cecil said.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, Cecil was still on the phone, and the caller kept transferring her up the so-called chain of command.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wanted me to go to my bank and pull out $15,000,\u201d Cecil said.<\/p>\n
Cecil also received a text message with a picture of a so-called arrest warrant. The warrants have some discrepancies.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI\u2019m just really meticulous with fonts and formatting in life and at work, and so I noticed that the fonts didn’t all match up and it didn’t look like a standard filled-in form,\u201d Cecil said.<\/p>\n
She tells News5 she also noticed the signature of the U.S. Marshal belongs to a man who serves in the western district of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
She says the man on the phone also mispronounced Vermijo Avenue which was her final straw to go inside the sheriff’s office.<\/p>\n
The El Paso County Sheriff\u2019s Office calls it a jury duty warrant scam. The sheriff\u2019s office says they were not the ones to make this call or any others that might be going around.<\/p>\n
\u201cOver the last several years my name’s been used, recently the sheriff’s name has been used in some of them. Most everybody in the office whose name is out there publicly, their name gets used in these scams,\u201d Kurt Smith, the public informaton officer for the sheriff’s office, said.<\/p>\n
“It’s not me,” Smith said.<\/p>\n
While this is not a new scam, the sheriff’s office tells me they get calls about it every day.<\/p>\n
\u201cAbout a third of the phone calls we receive a day through our front desk or through different areas of the office is to confirm whether or not the person calling them was legitimate,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n
The sheriff’s office posted about the scam last month on Facebook. They say they will never request money for any reason, and no law enforcement agency will call or text people to say they owe taxes, missed jury duty, or have a warrant out for someone’s arrest.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn all of these cases we want the public to reach out and ask and verify who they’re talking to so we can cut down on these scams and we don’t continually have this issue throughout our community,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n
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