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| Palos Park Cops Warn About Prison Pen Pal Scams |
| By patch.com- Lorraine Swanson |
| Published: 06/06/2018 |
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PALOS PARK, IL -- Palos Park police are warning residents to beware of a new scam in which prison inmates are procuring citizens' information and then contacting them for a "little bit of money" to help ease their "miserable existence." According to police, a Palos Park woman came to them on June 4, where she reported receiving several unsolicited letters from an Illinois Department of Corrections inmate. Chief Joe Miller, of the Palos Park Police Department, said prisoners' ploys to acquire and psychologically manipulate pen pals has become one of the most popular and lucrative of all prison "businesses." Inmates obtain addresses from donated books or magazines, newspaper ads or scour the Internet in prison libraries. "Understand these inmates are very resourceful and have nothing better to do than sit around thinking how to put their scams into action," Miller said. Read More. |
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