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DailyGazette.com/SubscribeA message posted to the Schenectady Police Department’s Facebook page Thursday alerted the community to the ongoing phone and email scams.
The caller asks for personal information and use “deceptive, high-pressure fear tactics to get the victim to submit payment or face criminal penalties.”
Police were made aware of the local scam the past several days, the social media post read.
During the call that mentioned the police chief, the victim was threatened with arrest because of a purported issue about three residents’ social security numbers.
I ll never forget when I was maybe 12 or 13-years-old, I witnessed the look of sheer panic, grief and terror as tears rolled down the faces of my father and mother. What s going on, I asked. Your sister is missing, my father said as he frantically paced back and forth in between phone calls to the police station. My sister had gone out with a friend of hers the night before to the Altamont Fair. She didn t come home.
For hours we were living a nightmare. To this day, I can honesty say that I have never seen my mom and dad completely torn apart like they were on that summer day. When something like this happens, you immediately think the worst. I remember my mother saying out loud that she thought Sherri was dead. This was 35 years ago, and I remember it like it was yesterday.