The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is searching for the people accused of posing as high-ranking West Hollywood deputy.
According to an advisory sent out by the department, detectives have received reports of scammers impersonating Captain William Moulder, the head of the West Hollywood station, hoping this will threaten them enough to buy into their grift.
Detectives said that the impersonators scour the internet, including social media profiles, to gather information about their victims before contacting them. The scammers then call their victims sometimes masking their true phone numbers with contact information resembling a call from the West Hollywood station or other government agencies.
Once they have convinced their victim, they will order them to provide gift card codes over the phone or to send the cryptocurrency to an address. They will often demand the victim stay on the phone until the codes or cryptocurrency has been delivered.
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