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My son was getting released on bail at the Dallas Texas county jail when I received a phone call at 130am from someone who claimed to be Sgt Burdett from the jail saying I needed to pay 1250.00 for an ankle monitoring bracelet and drug and alcohol classes before my son can be released. I live in PA so the only way I could pay was with a credit card. The scammer said he needed me to pay through Zelle or pay pal but with a debit card I told him I only had a credit card so we tried it but it wouldn’t go through on either of those apps so I called my sons girlfriend and she was going to send the money with her debit card but when she put the info into the app to send the payment it came up as SCAM from her bank so she just told him he is a scammer and hung up on him. She went into the prison since she was the one who was picking up my son and asked if any of this was legit and they said no. He needed no ankle bracelet or classes and that it was a scam . Attached are some of the names of the people he said to try to send the money to on several different apps. He had us try cash app, pay pal, Zelle, venmo and Apple Pay . My sons girlfriend also told him that she would just go inside the jail and pay and he said no the doors are locked after a certain time yet she was sitting in the parking lot watching people going in and out of the jail . The scammer also asked her location and wanted to know which parking lot of the jail she was in. I was worried for her safely and called the jail and reported to have security come by where she was parked.