Scammers are going after marijuana businesses in Colorado, posing as an array of authority figures and colleagues while targeting employees in an effort to steal cash.
Stephanie Hull, director of operations for Rocky Road Remedies, says that con artists have contacted employees at two stores numerous times, presenting themselves as higher management, product vendors, utility providers and even state Marijuana Enforcement Division inspectors, all in an effort to persuade store staffers to drop off or wire thousands of dollars in cash. Rocky Road has been experiencing regular scam attempts since November, she notes, and it s not alone.
The Denver Police Department sent an alert to local marijuana business owners last October, warning of texting scams aimed at the industry. The fraudsters didn t go away, though, and the MED issued its own statewide memo about a month later. On January 14, the MED sent out the same memo, but with a new message in bold at the top: Since this bulletin w