Action alert: Be on guard against scams targeting registrants
Several New Hampshire registered citizens have recieved these type of scam calls. If you have please let us know the details and what if anything you did about it. info@ccjrnh.org
10/2 UPDATE: FIRST REPORT OF SCAM ACTIVITY IN MINNESOTA; 9/29/19UPDATE: ACTIVITY REPORTED IN ARKANSAS; SEE NEWS ARTICLE BELOW; 9/10 NEW UPDATE: FIRST REPORT IN ILLINOIS OF SCAM ACTIVITY 8/5: NEW UPDATE: NEW ACTIVITY IN TEXAS AND FIRST REPORTS OF ACTIVITY IN TENNESSEE. 7/31/19 UPDATE: Scammer activity has increased in FLORIDA. BE AWARE; BE ALERT.
2/27/19: Adding North Carolina. Repeating the warning: If you get a call from someone saying he is with law enforcement, that you are out of compliance, or overdue, or anything to do with your registration status and that he can help you take care of it, it is a scam. Hang up and call your registry office or local law enforcement. This has been going on for well over a year. We have just today gotten word that it is operating in Pennsylvania.
Variations have developed where registrants are called and told a family member is arrested and needs help. Be on the alert no matter what state you are in. Reported in Virginia: https://wtvr.com/2019/03/26/scammed-sex-offenders-call-virginia-state-police-for-help/
This is a list of states, revised to include all as they occur, from where we have had reports. Contact NARSOL if you learn of it being in a state not listed here.
ARKANSAS; CALIFORNIA, COLORADO, CONNECTICUT, FLORIDA, GEORGIA, IDAHO, ILLINOIS, MARYLAND, MICHIGAN, MINNESOTA, MISSOURI, NEBRASKA, NEW HAMPSHIRE, NEW MEXICO, NORTH CAROLINA; OHIO, OKLAHOMA, OREGON, PENNSYLVANIA, TEXAS, TENNESSEE, VIRGINIA
See our earlier posting about this: https://www.ccjrnh.org/sex_offender_laws_treatment/possible_scam_targeti...
Here are a few media stories from various other states:
https://wwjnewsradio.radio.com/articles/police-scam-targets-registered-sex-offenders