The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office recently fielded 20 calls from residents who said scammers were impersonating LSO employees. Captain John Vik says the scammers were calling people and claiming to be him.
“There’s some people who apparently thought they were trying to be me. I am Captain John Vik from the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office, not a person that calls on the phone asking to speak with people about an urgent legal matter or to pay them with Green Dot cards.
Vik stresses no one at the sheriff’s office will ever call someone and tell them to pay fines or warrants with gift cards or any other method. “I can assure you you’re always welcome to call in and verify whether or not the person who you’re talking to on the phone is in fact someone with our office,” Vik says.
He says they did not receive any reports of people losing money from this scam.