CROSSVILLE WOMAN VICTIM OF PHONE SCAM THREATENING JAIL TIME OVER 15-YEAR-OLD CHECK
On February 12, 2026, a Crossville woman contacted the Crossville Police Department to report that she had been the victim of a phone scam. That afternoon around 2:45 p.m., she received a call from a man claiming to represent a company called “Compliance.”
The caller told her that she had written a fraudulent check for $1,347.22 from a bank account she used approximately 15 years earlier. He threatened that if she did not immediately pay the alleged debt, she would be taken to jail. Frightened by the threat, she used her TVA credit card to make the payment as instructed.
After ending the call, someone later informed her that she had been scammed.
She subsequently canceled her credit card. The reporting officer, Jessie Henson, advised her to change any other banking or personal information she may have shared with the scammer.
