{"id":20408,"date":"2019-12-03T12:38:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T19:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=61856"},"modified":"2019-12-03T12:38:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T19:38:06","slug":"sheriffs-office-warns-of-phone-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/sheriffs-office-warns-of-phone-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheriff\u2019s office warns of phone scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"477\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/07\/GrandCountyScam-SHN-072617.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/07\/GrandCountyScam-SHN-072617.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/07\/GrandCountyScam-SHN-072617-150x115.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/07\/GrandCountyScam-SHN-072617-325x250.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The Grand County Sheriff\u2019s Office is warning residents about scam calls that are spoofing its fax number to attempt to get personal information.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday morning, the sheriff\u2019s office posted a warning message to its Facebook encouraging people not to share any information, especially via email.<\/p>\n<p>The scam mirrors the sheriff\u2019s office fax number, 970-725-3227, and asks for personal information. According to Sheriff Brett Schroetlin, one report about the scam was made to the Fraser Winter Park Police Department on Monday and his office has received a couple comments about the scam.<\/p>\n<p>Schroetlin said the sheriff\u2019s office never conducts random calls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnless we are actively working a case with them and have already developed a rapport with somebody then we might call,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>Commonly, scammers will ask the person on the line to email them information to an unidentifiable address or to call them back on a different number.<\/p>\n<p>Schroetlin recommended residents call the sheriff\u2019s office business line, 970-726-3343, to verify any requests for information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat tends to happen is a lot of people don\u2019t actually call us to confirm, they just assume it was legit,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/sheriffs-office-warns-of-phone-scam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Sky-Hi News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grand County Sheriff\u2019s Office is warning residents about scam calls that are spoofing its fax number to attempt to get personal information. On Tuesday morning, the sheriff\u2019s office posted a warning message to its Facebook encouraging people not to share any information, especially via email. The scam mirrors the sheriff\u2019s office fax number, 970-725-3227, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 07:40:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}