Man charged with impersonating officer during 2021 Madison County telephone scam, arrested in Florida

MADISON COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) – A man was booked into the Madison County Jail on Saturday for pretending to be an officer and defrauding over $7,000 through a telephone scam in 2021, the sheriff’s office said.

On September 11, 2021, deputies responded to a report of a phone scam in which the victim said they had been tricked into paying $7,500 by someone posing as law enforcement.

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The suspect, later identified as 36-year-old Christopher Andrews, used a “spoofed” line that matched MSCO’s main line and claimed the victim had a failure-to-appear warrant for a federal case.

MCSO said that the suspect told the victim to make several payments via Apple Pay and Green Dot money cards to avoid being arrested…

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