Woke up to a voicemail from the Isle of Wight Sheriff’s Office

Called the number provided for the deputy, got his voicemail

On my way to my annual physical with my doc, sheriff’s office calls back

Apparently, I didn’t show up for a grand jury hearing, failed to do my civic duty

Sorry, what?

Mam, we have 3 warrants out for your arrest since you failed to show up yesterday

You can come down here in our custody for a few days till we get you in front of a judge, or you can post bond

If you go into a federal building, you will be arrested

I won’t parlay all of the details of the call, the conversation went 30 minutes, the entire drive to my doctors office

My scam alert was blinking red, but the accents on the phone were consistent with ones I would expect out of the Isle of Wight Sheriff’s office

When I said I needed to sort out if this is a scam, they even called me back from what I know as the main Isle of Wight Sheriff’s non emergency main phone number to prove they were the real deal

Plausible, but still highly suspect

I had a suspicion that this might be a scam, but it seemed real, however inconceivable it might be that I would sign up for a federal grand jury in Virginia knowing full well I live in California now

Did I space out? Did the mail go to the wrong mailbox and someone really did sign it and return it, not paying attention to who the summons was addressed to?

I finally got off the phone with a promise to talk again with the deputy at 4pm east coast time

Then I walked into my docs office

First thing the doctors team did was to take my blood pressure

I told them it would be high because of a phone call I fielded coming to the appointment

It was: squarely in stage 3 hypertension zone

They took it again, even higher

I sooooo don’t need this!

Who can I call? Jim? Kacey? OMG, Kacey will know what I need to do. She has her own law practice in the state of Virginia, she is there. I am so blessed we have her talents in our family!

I sent her a text, gave her the gist of this, as I waited for the doctor to come in

Can we talk before 4pm please?

Doctor walks in……I can’t look at my cell phone for a while, trying to focus on the conversation with the doctor but this is all running in the background, stressing me out, distracting me

Kacey replies, yes I can talk before 4, I will call you in a few….oh, and here is a link to a notice saying this is probably a scam.

It seemed so real!

After my doc’s appointment, we talked

She explained how the system, legal arrest system, really works

I have no clue, no experience, I am a law abiding citizen!

I was so rattled, I wanted to be absolutely sure, so she said call the non-emergency number directly and inquire

So I did, she was right, it was a scam, they were well aware of it

Seriously, country bubbas are now into this racket?

I so didn’t need that

The longer term issue is I really have a high blood pressure thing to deal with along with a few other not attractive stats

Caregiver health is a real concern, stress does things to a body as it gets older

I so don’t need idiots like this making it harder

I blocked the numbers that called me as the real sheriff’s office recommended

If they did call back, I did have a game plan, or 2

I would ask them if they thought they were making their momma proud by scamming people

Or fake I had a phone tracer on them, you know, just like they do on TV!

Someone needs to create an app that lets you take some level of uncomfortable revenge on idiots like this!