"the phone files cannot be a racist"?! What?! Oh, wait! I bet you meant to say "the phone files cannot be erased! Right? I mean, what you said makes absolutely no sense so that must be what you meant instead.
This is exactly what just happened to me.Word for word!Im not paying a dime, but im also not going to file a report..How do I even begin to explain that I was knowingly(or so I believed)trading nude pictures with what I thought was a 15 year old girl and im 23???Anyone care to answer that??
Against my better judgement, I called the Sheriff's Department and I explained this scenario,and just as I suspected, the person that took my call was ABSOLUTELY unhelpful.Said not to pay or entertain the scammer, block the number blah, blah, blah.What a waste of my tax money!!
What exactly do you expect the police to do? You got sound advice so take it already. Unless you know the name and confirmed physical location of the caller/ "business" there's nothing the police can do at this point. If you like go in person and file a report. You can do that regardless how "helpful" the police may seem.