You may have seen this Ch. 9 report on a telephone scam that we became aware of last week in which someone has been calling local residents asking for donations over the phone for the Gregory J. Harris Military Courtesy Room. Unfortunately, we became aware of it and reported it to the Syracuse Police Department. We also contacted Ch. 9’s Your Stories segment asking them to make the public aware of the scam AND contact Syracuse Police if they were called and still had information about the caller and what they asked potential donors to do with their donations.
Apparently, Ch. 9 contacted the police and they didn’t want to add that residents who were contacted should call the Syracuse Police. We at the Courtesy Room are beside ourselves that someone out there would use our project to cheat people out of their hard earned money.
If the Police don’t seem interested in finding this individual, we at the Courtesy Room are more than interested. If you have been contacted by this individual over the phone and have any information; a phone number from the caller ID, the address where they asked you to send the donations or anything of that nature, we ask that you contact us via email at gjharrismilitarycourtesyroom@gmail.com and we will take it from there.
To reiterate what was said on the Ch. 9 broadcast, we only solicit donations via written letter and anyone wanting to send a donation should send it to:
Gregory J. Harris Military Courtesy Room
7155 Manlius Center Road
East Syracuse, NY 13057
Check should be made out to – Gregory Harris Military Courtesy Room
If you have any questions, please call 315-715-0404 and speak with out Public Relations Coordinator.
Thank you to the Community for your ongoing support of our project and we hope that the perpetrator of this illegal activity is found and brough to justice in the very near future.
Thank you!
The Staff and Volunteers of the Gregory J. Harris Military Courtesy Room
