Equifax scammer posing as an Eagle County Sheriff's detective called that detective

EAGLE — Scammers have become so brazen that an Eagle County Sheriff's detective received a call, on the office phone, from a scammer claiming to be an Eagle County Sheriff's detective.

The scammer then requested the detective's Social Security number, claiming that he wanted to pull up a warrant, said Jessie Porter, a public information officer with the Eagle County Sheriff's Office.

"The scammer didn't realize that he was actually speaking to a detective from the (sheriff's office). We receive calls almost daily reporting phone scams," Porter said.

So it should surprise no one that the tentacles of the massive Equifax hack, and scams that inevitably followed, have reached into Eagle County.

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