Recently, the Cass County Sheriff’s Office has received numerous reports of fraud and scam phone calls and text messages in which the scammer has posed as a member of the Cass County Sheriff’s Office. While each of these cases has some variety, in one reported case, the victim reported they received a scam call from an individual posing as a member of the Sheriff’s Office Administrative team, demanding payment for an unpaid fine that would lead to an arrest warrant. The fraudster used a caller ID spoofing technique and used the name and badge number of a Sheriff’s Office administrative staff member, leading the victim and their coworkers to believe the scam, which involved transferring currency through a purchased “Green Dot card” to the fraudster.

Caller ID Spoofing is when a caller deli

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