{"id":36752,"date":"2015-08-26T14:35:10","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T18:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=36752"},"modified":"2015-08-26T14:35:45","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T18:35:45","slug":"be-wary-of-fraudulent-police-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2015\/08\/be-wary-of-fraudulent-police-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Wary of <br>Fraudulent &#8220;Police&#8221; Calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written by The Lee County Sheriff Office<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-36753\" title=\"Scam\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Scam-300x114.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Scam-300x114.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Scam.jpeg 364w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Have you received a call from someone claiming to be with the Lee County \u201cPolice\u201d Department or with the union associated with the \u201cLee County Police Department?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Someone is calling our residents claiming to be with the \u201cLee County Police Department\u201d which is an agency that does\u00a0notexist in Lee County Florida asking parents a series of questions:<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->1. How many people are in your household?<\/p>\n<p>2. When do the parents get home?<\/p>\n<p>3. When are the parents available to meet with the caller?<\/p>\n<p>4. How many children are in the household?<\/p>\n<p>The caller\u2019s goal is to make an appointment with the parent so they may fingerprint the child\/children and take a swab of the child\/children for DNA purposes. They then state that they will keep this information on file so if the child\/children ever go missing this information will be on file.<\/p>\n<p>If you receive a similar call; HANG UP. This call is NOT from the Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>If you are not certain if the call is real or if you want to confirm what the caller is saying call the Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Fraud Line at\u00a0<a href=\"tel:239-258-3292\" target=\"_blank\">239-258-3292<\/a>\u00a0or our main number at\u00a0<a href=\"tel:239-477-1000\" target=\"_blank\">239-477-1000<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by The Lee County Sheriff Office Have you received a call from someone claiming to be with the Lee County \u201cPolice\u201d Department or with the union associated with the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}