video<\/a> to social media about the scam on Friday afternoon. In the video, Sheriff Bill Waybourn said, “This is a scam alert. We have had a number of people come in just this week that are being scammed over the phone from $500-$30,000. Let me give you a few examples.”<\/p>\nWaybourn said one red flag is an unknown person calling and claiming to be from a government agency. “If somebody’s calling you from a government agency demanding you go get cash, don’t do it,” he says. “That’s a scam.”<\/p>\n
He continues, “If somebody tells you to stay on the phone with them while you go get cash, don’t do it. That is a scam.”<\/p>\n
According to Waybourn, other common scams include telling the victim that they missed jury duty and owe a penalty or that a loved one is in legal jeopardy and needs cash immediately to get bonded out of jail.<\/p>\n
“If they say that they want you to deposit money on a Bitcoin, that is a scam,” he says. “Hang up the phone. Do not talk to those people. Tell them you know it’s a scam and we’re coming at them.”<\/p>\n
Waybourn says in the video that the department is actively working to identify the scammers and bring a case against them. “Forward this, like this,” he says. “Let’s expose these people all over the country.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office is issuing a scam alert due to reports of residents being contacted by…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":783669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,7371,7372,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-783668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fortworth","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116543183121851648","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}