Sheriff's Office: 7 'Jury Duty' Scams Reported New Years Day

The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, which alerted residents earlier this week of a phone scam involving callers posing as law enforcement, said it received seven complaints on New Years Day concerning “very threatening and intimidating” phone calls.

All posed as DCSO officers who demanded money from victims because they didn’t show up for jury duty.

Here’s the latest media alert sent by the agency at 11:08 a.m. Wednesday:

On January 1, 2015 the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office received seven complaints throughout the day from citizens stating that they were receiving very threatening and intimidating phone calls from a male subject on two separate phone numbers (770-558-5860 and 770-558-5278) posing as Captain Tim Pounds and or Lieutenant William Lashley from our office.

The citizens all stated that the subject calling stated the same message by stating they had an active warrant for failure to appear for jury duty and that they needed to go and purchase a green dot card in the amount of $ 2,365.00 to pay a fine. The subject asked the citizen for their cell phone number so the subject could be in constant contact with them till the green dot card was purchased and activated so they could get the routing number from the card.

We have had no victims as of this date that has been scammed by this subject. This type of scam has been circulating throughout the Atlanta metro area. Again when this male subject calls he is intimidating and is using threating tatics! Please be very conscientiousness and do not become a victim to this scam!

We at the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office would never contact anyone on a matter pertaining to this. We are currently investigating this incident very thoroughly to find who this subject or subjects are and arrest all that are involved. If you have received a call from this male subject or a call similar of this nature please contact Investigator Joe Williams at 678-486-1234.