DURAND, Mich. (AP) - Authorities in Michigan’s Shiawassee County are warning residents about a phone scam that is targeting grandparents.
MLive r eports that the county’s sheriff’s office issued the alert after receiving several reports about elderly residents of Owosso and Durand receiving calls from a young man asking that they send him money so he can post bond to get out of jail.
The caller has told the people that he can’t provide any more information because a judge has issued a gag order and then asks the residents to buy him gift cards, take a photograph of them or give tell him the code identification on the back.
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The sheriff’s office says that the recipients of such calls should not give out any personal information or purchase the gift cards.
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