County Treasurer Warns Locals Of Scammers Claiming To Be Gov't Reps Who Target Property Owners With Unpaid Taxes With Talk Of Foreclosure, Eviction

In Allegany County, New York, the Wellsville Daily Reporter reports:

• If someone has come to your door in the last few weeks about foreclosure or eviction over unpaid taxes, it’s nobody from the county treasurer’s office, Treasurer Terri Ross says.
  
  “The office of the Allegany County treasurer has received several complaints resulting from unsolicited and deceptive practices directed towards landowners with outstanding delinquent taxes,” Ross said in a notice sent out near the end of January. “These practices have been performed by unknown parties claiming to be county representatives.
  
  “It is not the practice of Allegany County to contact landowners in person, nor does the Allegany County treasurer execute or threaten to execute eviction notices,” she said in the notice. “If an additional notice is to be posted upon a delinquent tax parcel, the notice will be posted by a uniformed Allegany County sheriff’s deputy.”

For more, see County treasurer cautions residents about home visits over delinquent taxes (Ross: Those who visit residences are falsely representing the treasurer's office).