The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

DAYTON - The Columbia Coun­ty Sheriff's Office reported this week that it has received 45 calls since January reporting fraudulent tele­phone calls, emails, postal mail and other scams.

"We all need to be aware of the scams that are out there and how to protect ourselves," said Sheriff Rocky Miller in a press release.

According to Miller, a variety of methods are being used to try to get money out of local residents. They include emails requesting financial information, telephone calls where the caller "fishes" for information about a resident, and even calls in which the caller falsely c...