Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office launches Scam Free Saturdays to spread the word, prevent fraud

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office wants to keep you and those you love from falling for scams, which are evolving every day to be sneakier and harder to spot.To that end, the agency is launching “Scam Free Saturdays,” which will feature a social media post every Saturday highlighting ways to avoid scams.“It’s something our officers are getting calls about every single day. Scams. Scam phone calls and texts. Fake emails and social media posts. All with the intention of tricking you and your family out of your money,” JSO wrote in a news release announcing the initiative.JSO said that as the scam world continues changing, the agency’s Economic Crimes detectives are working hard to hold scammers accountable.But, ideally, they want to help you spot the tricksters before they snag your hard-earned money or personal info.JSO said that some weeks, the social media posts will feature a current scam case that JSO is working on, and other weeks they might highlight a type of scam we think people