DHSPD advises residents of suspect solicitors posing as police/fire officials
The Desert Hot Springs Police Department today advised residents about unknown people posing as police or fire officials seeking donations.
People in uniform, posing as police and fire department officials, were believed to have been soliciting donations door-to-door in residential neighborhoods, according to police.
"This community advisory is to notify the residents of Desert Hot Springs that no police or fire officials are seeking donations door to door,'' police wrote in a statement.
Anyone who is contacted by similar solicitors was asked to call police dispatch at 760-329-2904.
The Riverside County Sheriff's Office also shared a scam alert to residents reminding them that the agency would never ask for payment in exchange for deleting a warrant or preventing an arrest.
