Scammer tries to con police captain (ASL – 8.31.19)

Transcript

A woman in North Carolina got a phone call from a man trying to scam her out of her personal information.

He claimed she was going to be arrested if she did not provide him with her social security number and bank account information.

But this just wasn’t any woman.

Ann Stephens is the captain of the Apex Police Department!

So Stephens used her experience to show how to deal with phone scammers.

When the man told Stephens she was facing charges and a Sheriff’s deputy was on the way, she gave him the address for the police department.

Stephens had someone record the conversation and then posted the video to the Police Department’s Facebook page.

Needless to say, the scammers didn’t get anything from her.

Stephens want to remind others: Don’t ever give out your information and don’t verify information even if they have it.

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