Jury Duty Scam Warrants and Arrests

"One of our employees was almost was out $2,000.
Someone called our restaurant and the caller ID said Benton County Sheriff’s office. They had this persons first, middle and last name, phone number and address. The scammer proceeded to tell our employee that they had missed jury duty and could handle this two ways, criminal or civil. They proceeded to call our employee on their personal cell phone and had them go to their car to continue speaking about the matter. Criminal was essentially going to jail and civil was paying some fees and that those fees would be reimbursed after fully completing jury duty. The scammer proceeded to tell our employee they could not talk about this with anyone and that their calls and texts were being monitored due to it being an ongoing investigation. They sent barcodes to their email to bring to Walmart to scan to deposit two different payments of $998. Thank goodness our employee was finding this very suspicious and started asking questions to determine whether this was a scam. The scammer did not like this and started to get snippy and say our employee could just drive to Benton County Sheriff’s office and get arrested right then if they did not wish to comply. Our employee asked him what the 3 cities in Tri-Cities were to which this “Sheriff” said he didn’t want to play these games and then went on to talk on a “police scanner” for some time while he most likely googled the answer and then finally gave our employee an answer. Our employee then decided to google “jury duty scams” and found many people had stories of the same exact thing that was happening to them and ended the call and called the actual Benton County Sheriff’s Office to inform them.
Please be so careful out there. The caller ID said Benton County Sheriff’s Office and even had the same phone number. These scammers are good at what they do and are extremely convincing."

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"So yesterday, I was dealing with vet runs with Becca and Lindy, and my mind has been consumed with Lindy and her health. I get a 478 call, so I answer it (thinking it was regarding a pup). It’s a cop who says his lieutenant wants to speak to me; he patches him through to me. Apparently, I missed jury duty, and I have two warrants out for my arrest. But he tells me if I come to the station, he will have to arrest me immediately, but if I pay the % of my bail, I can come in and just do the signature test to prove it wasn’t me that signed for the letter, and my $ would be refunded. I'M FREAKING OUT, never been a juror, never knew anything about it or the process!

So trying to do the right thing and after 1 hour and 38 minutes later and after doing everything he said, I walk in the police station to prove I didn’t sign for the letter, it is then they tell me it was a scam and I just lost an assload of $$ and will never get it back. I have never felt so many emotions in my life! But the biggest one is disgust that I was that naive, gullible, and stupid to fall for it.

After speaking to the Investigator, he said a doctor fell for the same scenario and another lady fell for another cyber scam and lost $200K that he is currently working on! I cannot even imagine losing that much money because that makes mine look minuscule, but losing ANY AMOUNT of $ to these scammers is just mentally exhausting! I’m smarter than this, but here I am, someone just played me a fool! So the reason I’m putting this out there is so no one else falls for these scams. He had my mind engaged the WHOLE time, so I didn’t catch on. They are good at what they do, and the investigator said it’s probably $ being laundered to the cartel, and the guy on the other line was probably sitting in prison already. How do they get phones and computer access? Idk. I just wanted to share this so you don't fall for this scam! I didn’t want anyone else to feel like I’m feeling right now!! Stay vigilant!"

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