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Yea it was funny I got a call from someone sounding very local (deep South) and authoritative claiming to be a sheriff's deputy. Saying (in short) I missed a federal jury duty summons and I needed to pay bail to stay out of jail. Even texted me a signed, legit-looking warrant and transferred me to a superior officer at one point who also sounded local. Anyway aside from "posting bail up front to stay out of jail" being a pretty obvious sign something was up (and there were other signs, like mistaking area code for zip code), as I said I was heading down to the sheriff's office to sort this out, they then began trying to direct me to a kiosk to wire cash "because of covid and social distancing."

At that point I was like, "Look, I'm gonna call the sheriff's office. If you're there, we can pick this conversation back up."

The dude started getting pissed off trying to get me to stay on the phone, and the mask started slipping and the pajeet started coming out. Anyway, called the SO, and oddly enough they had an officer by the name the jeet gave, but the badge numbers and rank didn't match (badge # didn't even match the format they use).

All that to say , and I asked my wife - how did they expect that to work, exactly? Like, I'm going to wire money to... the sheriff's office? They don't take cash or money order? Covid and social distancing in 2026?

It was a dumb scam... the kind of scam I would have come up with when I was 10 years old (we had some pretty excellent prank calls back in the day). It's some pretty amazing audacious stupidity... but I guess if you're that stupid, the scam would seem pretty smart and foolproof.