{"id":35123,"date":"2022-05-03T20:51:41","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T00:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=35123"},"modified":"2022-05-03T20:51:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T00:51:43","slug":"scam-alert-the-dekalb-county-sheriffs-office-isnt-calling-you-to-pay-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=35123","title":{"rendered":"Scam Alert: The DeKalb County Sheriff&#8217;s office isn&#8217;t calling you to pay fees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recent reports from frantic <a href=\"\/tag\/DeKalb-County\">DeKalb<\/a> residents indicate that phone scammers have re-surfaced in the metro area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Callers are posing as DeKalb County Sheriff\u2019s Deputies or other employees of the agency. The familiar scam threatens innocent victims with intimidating threats of being arrested on a warrant \u2013 that does not exist \u2013 or for not appearing to serve jury duty. Then the scammer offers to help the victim avoid arrest by paying a fee, generally through prepaid money cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou are being targeted by a criminal,\u201d warns Chief Deputy Randy Akies. \u201cJust hang up. Do not engage in conversation with the caller and please do not give them any personal or financial information such as social security card or bank account numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scammers have boldly told callers to meet them in the sheriff\u2019s office parking lot to pay the fraudulent fees to avoid being arrested. They rely on fear to motivate the targets to follow their instructions. They are known to prey on senior citizens and immigrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe sheriff\u2019s office will never contact anyone by phone and ask for personal information or payment to avoid arrest,\u201d says Chief Akies. \u201cIf anyone calls you pretending to be a representative of this agency and asking for money, let us know by calling 404-298-8200 or 404- 298-8282.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=10]\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent reports from frantic DeKalb residents indicate that phone scammers have re-surfaced in the metro area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":32317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[8487,11417],"class_list":["post-35123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-dekalb-county","tag-dekalb-county-sheriffs-office","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}