08/06/2026
🚨 **SCAM ALERT – A Growing Trend We Want You to Know About** 🚨
The Fairfield County Sheriff's Office is seeing a growing trend in financial scams, and the criminals are changing their tactics.
For years, scammers have pretended to be **bank employees, law enforcement officers, government agencies, or other trusted organizations** in an attempt to convince victims to send them money. Now, they are increasingly instructing victims to **wire money** instead.
Why? Because once a wire transfer is sent, **it is often very difficult—if not impossible—to recover the money.** Unlike some other types of transactions, banks frequently cannot reverse a completed wire transfer.
🚩 **Here is the biggest red flag:**
If anyone contacts you and tells you to **wire them money**, stop immediately. Whether they claim your account has been compromised, you owe a fine, a family member is in trouble, or your money needs to be "protected," **it is almost certainly a scam.**
Remember:
• Law enforcement will **never** call and demand payment by wire transfer.
• Your bank will **never** tell you to wire your money to another account to "keep it safe."
• Scammers create a sense of urgency so you don't have time to think or verify their story.
If you receive one of these calls:
✅ Hang up.
✅ Contact your bank using the number on the back of your debit or credit card.
✅ If the caller claimed to be from law enforcement, contact that agency directly using a publicly listed phone number.
Please share this post to help protect your family, friends, and neighbors. A few seconds of caution could save someone from losing their life savings.
