Platte County Sheriff warns of scam callers posing as members of sheriff's office - KSHB 41 Kansas City News

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Posted at 12:48 PM, Dec 28, 2022

and past updated 2022-12-28 13:48:31-05

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Platte County Sheriff's Office is warning that scam callers are posing arsenic members of the sheriff's bureau and threatening arrest.

Deputies accidental that the scammers are calling citizens from blocked and unidentified numbers and telling those who reply that they person postulation warrants and indispensable marque a outgo to debar arrest.

The scam victims are being told to enactment outgo connected a prepaid paper to wage astatine a kiosk astatine the Platte County Sheriff's Office. The scammers past telephone the idiosyncratic back, informing them that the kiosk is not functioning and the outgo indispensable beryllium made implicit the phone, oregon they volition beryllium arrested, the sheriff's bureau said.

"The Platte County Sheriff’s Office does not interaction radical by telephone to person them wage fines oregon to fulfill warrants," the Platte County Sheriff clarified successful an alert.

Citizens are advised not to stock idiosyncratic accusation implicit the telephone and to interaction an enactment done a verifiable fig to corroborate a caller tin beryllium trusted.

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