Authorities in the Garden State are alerting you to yet another scam that’s been going around.
News snapshot
- Warning comes from the Salem County Sheriff’s Office in South Jersey
- Scammers are trying to get $2100 from people
- This scam involves inmates supposedly being released from prison
Don’t fall for the prison overcrowding scam in NJ
The Salem County Sheriff’s Office says they have been made aware of a scam involving callers posing as employees of the Salem County Correctional Facility.
These fraudsters claim that due to prison overcrowding, an inmate has been approved for release with an ankle monitor.
That itself seems like a rather odd basis for a scam, but it gets a bit more bizarre.
Those scammers then demand that you pay $2,100 for the monitoring service by using PayPal, Venmo, or other payment apps…