The St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office is warning area residents about a variety of scams that have been reported in the local area.
To avoid becoming the victim of scams, residents are advised to:
- Never open up or use a personal bank account to deposit or transfer funds for someone else.
- Donate to verified charities to ensure your donations reach their target destination.
- Beware of requests to download apps that allow access to your device.
- Be wary of “get rich quick” or “easy money” schemes – especially those that are unsolicited.
- Don’t provide information like your bank account, personal identifying information, passwords, user IDs or PINs to solicitors.
- Don’t verify a one-time passcode that you didn’t request.
- Don’t click links from unknown sources.
- Don’t deposit checks from unknown sources.