LANCASTER, PA — Residents in Lancaster County are receiving an increasing number of scam telephone calls from persons impersonating sheriff’s office deputies.
The scammer may use the names of actual deputy sheriffs and have also demonstrated the ability to clone the sheriff’s office telephone number.
The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office will never call residents and request that they pay any fines or fees over the telephone, nor will deputies demand that residents purchase gift or money cards to pay for court costs, post bail, or pay a fine for failure to appear for jury duty…