{"id":1238648,"date":"2023-06-27T01:50:58","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T06:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1238648"},"modified":"2023-06-28T08:30:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T13:30:06","slug":"harrison-county-sheriffs-office-warns-against-fake-investigator-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1238648","title":{"rendered":"Harrison County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office warns against fake investigator scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/06\/scam-phone-call-150x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1238649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/06\/scam-phone-call-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/06\/scam-phone-call-525x350.jpg 525w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/06\/scam-phone-call.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>HARRISON COUNTY \u00e2\u20ac\u201d According to our news partner KETK on June 26, Harrison County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office received a report of a male identifying himself as Tyler Martin, an Investigator with Harrison County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office. The sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office sent out a social media notification verifying that this information is false and Tyler Martin does not work for the Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office. The suspect is allegedly cloning the sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office phone number which is 903-923-4000. He is claimed to be informing individuals that they haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t appeared to their civil court case that they were summoned for. <\/p>\n<p>The sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office describes the scam on their Facebook: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153In order for the individuals to not be placed in jail they have to deposit cash in a gas station \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bit K\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Machine. Once all the cash has been deposited Martin will no longer contact you and you will not be able to contact him on the number he provides due to it being a false number.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office would like the public to know not to fall for these tactics and to stay safe. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Please be aware that this is a scam and the Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office will not direct you to do such thing,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said the Harrison County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISON COUNTY \u00e2\u20ac\u201d According to our news partner KETK on June 26, Harrison County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office received a report of a male identifying himself as Tyler Martin, an Investigator with Harrison County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office. The sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office sent out a social media notification verifying that this information is false and Tyler Martin does not work &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1238648\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Harrison County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office warns against fake investigator scam<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1238651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/06\/scam-phone-call-150x100.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Harrison County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office warns against fake investigator scam","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1238648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 07:11:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/06\/scam-phone-call-150x100.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Harrison County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office warns against fake investigator scam","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1238648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1238652,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238648\/revisions\/1238652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1238651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1238648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1238648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1238648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}