PUBLIC ADVISORY - PHONE SCAMS CONTINUING IN EL PASO, TX AREA

EL PASO, TEXAS

-  The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office is once again warning the community of El Paso to beware of unscrupulous scammers that are still randomly calling people scheming them out of $100’s-$1,000’s of dollars.

The method of operation for the on-going scam is as follows:

1. CALLER (scammer): calls residences landlines &  makes contact with the residents /victim.
2. CALLER: tells / convinces Victim that they are related & one of their family members was involved in an accident in Mexico & are in need of money because the Mexican police were asking for money to pay for another parties medical bills that was injured in the accident .
3. CALLER: then provides victim information on how to send the money via western union.

(It is unknown how the phone numbers were being selected) - The wire transfers were requested to Mexico Cities such as: Villahumada and Jalisco, Mexico.

One example of a conversation is as follows (translated from Spanish): “Tia it is me do you recognize my voice.”

It appears that in an attempt to make out the voice, the victim would unknowingly say a family member’s name that they felt they voice sounded like. The CALLER then say they were that person and continue with the story about the accident.

Some phone numbers retrieved thru Victim’s caller id’s are::

(313) 087-9437 / (554) 984-4629 / (554) 984-9484 -  It is unknown if these are American of Mexican phone numbers.

  Sheriff’s Investigators urge the community NOT to fall for these scams.