TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – You know scammers are getting craftier when they start scamming the organizations whose job it is to shut them down.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement issued a warning Friday alerting resident that scammers are using agency phone numbers to fool residents into believing they owe money to the state.
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The callers claim to be from the FDLE and tell individuals that there is a warrant out for their arrest and it will be removed only if they pay a fee or fine.
The FDLE warned Florida residents that the department would never call people in this way, and urged anyone who received a similar call to contact them at (850) 410-7000.
We've had reports of phone scammers spoofing FDLE phone numbers to commit fraud. The caller would tell the individual on the phone that they had a warrant for their arrest and they could pay the caller to get rid of the warrant. #phonescam pic.twitter.com/qkHkdFdjgh
— FDLE (@fdlepio) March 29, 2019