St. Landry Parish warning residents of phone scam

St. Landry Parish Government has been alerted to a phone scam targeting local residents, particularly the elderly, using the Parish Government’s main phone line as the Caller ID. Scammers are demanding large sums of money under the threat of arrest. The first reported incident occurred on Monday when a woman was told she must pay $7,000 to avoid being arrested in front of her children. In anoth...

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