Tulare County Sheriff's Office warning public of phone scam

TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Tulare County Sheriff's Office is informing the nationalist astir a telephone scam.

They accidental scammers are pretending to beryllium with the sheriff's office, calling astir a warrant for an arrest.

They supply the imaginable unfortunate with the code to a website meant to look similar the Tulare County Sheriff's Office website.

That website is fake. The replica website is tccso.org.

One unfortunate says the caller advised her to wage a good connected the fake website and scammed her retired of much than $1,300.

The sheriff's bureau says it volition ne'er telephone you and inquire for money, adjacent if you person a warrant for your arrest.