WC Scam - Jury duty summons and paying bail
Just got a call this afternoon from a Washoe County number stating that there was a warrant out for my arrest for failure to arrive for jury duty, after signing an acceptance and case overview for a grand jury murder trial. I got my law-abiding behind in the car to go down to the sheriff's office to sort it out, only to be told halfway there that actually if I step foot in the sheriff's office before bail was posted I would be arrested and stay in genpop until I saw a judge, which may take up to 9 months.
Now I'm no rocket scientist, but I'm not an idiot, so I asked for verification. And I was called separately by a second number that showed up on my phone as Washoe County, got a case number, blah blah blah...
Guys this whole thing was very well designed by multiple people to basically keep me in a state of panic for a solid hour so I wouldn't actually read the stupid documents they sent me. When I asked to have an officer meet me to walk me through the process, the scammer got mad and told me fine but the cop would just arrest me once he got there. Like??? At this point I put the scammer on hold (he said we had to stay connected or it would be taken as me resisting arrest) and called the non-emergency number for the sheriff. They said that a couple of their numbers had been stolen and that it was a scam. So I hung up and told the guy where he could go, and he proceeded to try to cuss me out before I hung up on him too.
I hate this timeline. Stay safe. Call the actual police if there is a question. Cheers.