Danbury Residents Warned About Police Impersonation Calls

According to a release from the Danbury Police Department, scammers are once again trying to trick people by pretending to be someone they’re definitely not — the police.

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DPD says they’ve received reports of individuals calling residents while posing as Danbury police officers. To make the scam sound more believable, the callers are even using the names of real officers and sometimes throwing around fake badge numbers to sound official.

The story they tell is designed to scare people into acting fast. The caller will claim that you have an arrest warrant out for you because you supposedly failed to appear in court. Then comes the catch: they’ll try to pressure you into providing personal financial information or sending money to “resolve” the situation.

The Danbury Police Department wants to make one thing crystal clear — they will never ask for payment or personal financial information over the phone. If someone calls you claiming to be a police officer and starts talking about warrants, fines, or immediate payments, that should be a giant red flag.

Police say if you receive a call like this and something doesn’t seem right, the best thing you can do is hang up and contact the Danbury Police Department directly. If you want to verify whether something is legitimate, you can reach DPD at 203-797-4611.

Scams like this have been popping up all over the country for years, and unfortunately they keep evolving. The people behind them know that if they sound convincing enough — using real names and official-sounding language — some folks will panic and do exactly what they’re told.

So here’s my advice if you really want to stay safe and scam-free in this world: never answer your phone again. In fact, don’t even have a phone. Stay inside your house at all times. Don’t talk to anyone, definitely don’t touch anyone, and for the love of everything holy, make no promises. Say nothing.

Actually, the safest move might just be to dig a hole in the woods and sit in it. Hard to scam someone who’s quietly living in a dirt bunker.

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John Pardue was a 27-year-old man in 1970 who lived in Danbury, his brother James was 23, and living in Lusby, MD. Before the story finds its way to the Hat City, and the brothers rob the Union Savings Bank on Main Street, they had already racked up quite the list of astonishing crimes.

Prior to Danbury, they robbed banks in Lewisboro, NY, Georgetown, CT and Union, MO. They also killed their father, their grandmother, two other men who helped them pull off the robbery in Georgetown, CT and had, at minimum, a role in the death of an innocent Bridgeport man that they stole a car from. John and James Pardue were hardened criminals before their Danbury bank robbery.

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Maybe this works out, maybe not at least I can say "look at this!"

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Note: This list covers neighborhoods ranked from 10 to 1, plus a few additional ones in the Greater-Danbury area. You can find the full list from 50 to 1 at the bottom of this article.

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