The Yancey County Sheriff’s Office has recently been informed of a nationwide scam that has been targeting citizens with Concealed Carry Weapons permits. Those targeted by this scam have received text messages alerting them that their permit needs to be renewed or changed and offers a link to provide the user’s information. This link is malicious and has NOT been generated by Yancey County Sheriff’s Office nor the Permit Director Software Company they use. NO TEXT MESSAGES FROM YANCEY COUNTY OR THE PERMIT DIRECTOR SOFTWARE CONTAIN LINKS.
If you feel you have been targeted or have already experienced malicious intent due to these text messages, please report the scam to https://www.usa.gov/stop-scams-frauds The Sheriff’s Department asks that you only report any monetary loss associated with this scam to the Sheriff’s Office. They have confirmed that the text messages are being sent randomly from many different phone numbers to people across the entire nation.
The Sheriff’s Office will NEVER send you a text or an email to renew your Concealed Carry Weapons permit,. They mail out a renewal letter through the post office. The written letter contains the website you will use to renew your CCW Permit.
