Speak Up: Kent County Sheriff’s Office issues scam alert

Kent County Sheriff Norman Barlow wants residents to know there’s no one named Williams Woodall working in his office. It’s a fictitious name recently used by a caller in an attempted scam targeting county citizens.

• Problem No. 1 is answering their phone. Regardless of caller ID, let them use voicemail. Ninety-nine percent of them hang up. — Bob Hice
• This isn’t anything new. I received a call from a scammer last year who said they were from the sheriff’s office. When I called the office to report it, a lady answered the phone and said, “What do you want me to do?” — Ruth Hamilton