WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. - Scam alert!
According to the Westchester County Police Department, residents have been receiving calls from someone pretending to be a representative of the “Westchester County Sheriff’s Office.”
There is NO such entity as the “Westchester County Sheriff’s Office.”
The WCPD was created in 1979 through a merger of the then-sheriff’s department and the county parkway police. A variety of traditional “sheriff’s” functions are handled by the WCPD’s Civil Unit in White Plains.
Again, if some claims to be from the “Westchester County Sheriff’s Office,” it’s a scam.
The impostor – who is identifying himself as “Lt. Perry” at the moment – claims there is a warrant for the arrest of the person being contacted for “failure to appear for jury duty,” according to a WCPD spokesperson.
The caller then asks for payment to supposedly resolve the issue.
NO legit agency does things like this.
The WCPD notes that the bad guys provide a phony phone number that leads to series of menu options for the “sheriff’s office.”
Folks are advised to immediately hang up or to not return the call if they’ve gotten a voice mail.
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