The Marion County Sheriff's Office says they had $1.5 million in reported losses due to scam calls in one month this year.

Lt. Paul Bloom runs the crime prevention unit and says it's impossible to keep up with the scammers.

"I get these phone calls on my work cellphone. It's a business that brings in billions of dollars a year for these scammers. So they're not going to quit. Starbucks will be out of business before they are," he said.

In September, Stacy Goldstein got a scam call while at work. It started with an unknown number.

"I answered it, and it was a male, country accent, sounded very normal. He was with the Marion County Sheriff's Office, stated that I missed a jury duty trial on a federal level case, in which I now have a warrant out for my arrest," she said. "He knew where I

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