OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) – Scammers will search public information looking for potential victims and they found them on a surprising website. But that avenue for random names has been cut off.
Scammers often use the threat of jail in an attempt to trick a payment out of startled victims.
“Their goal was to get money from myself or others to prevent some sort of punishment. I knew it was a scam almost immediately,” one scam target said…