Searcy County Arkansas Sheriff’s Email Hacked: Deputy Dopey Not Too Concerned

I received an email that appeared to be from Searcy County Sheriff, Kenney Cassell today.

It said he was sharing a Dropbox file with me. Just click here.

I am sick with COVID and still under the influence of medications. It is difficult to sit. It is difficult to breath. Sorry William White, Susan Weaver and Portfolio Recovery Associates; I am not going to die from this. It is just slowing me down.

I foolishly clicked on the box and entered my email address and password, as instructed.

When there was no file presented to me, I quickly changed my email password.

I called the sheriff. Deputy Devon answered. (You can listen to the call below.)

He put me on hold a couple minutes to investigate. Then he said “We see an email. It was not meant to be sent to you. We are not sure exactly what this email is so you can disregard it. It’s not anything.”

Me: It’s very strange.

Deputy “Dopey” Devon: We didn’t send this email somehow.

Me: What do you mean you didn’t send it?

Deputy Dopey: We didn’t send this out this morning. We may have been hacked so…

Me: You may have been hacked?

Deputy Dopey: Disregard it. Delete it.

I gave him a long explanation of why I wanted more specific information about who hacked their system. I was concerned it might be Judge Susan Weaver or Attorney William White.

Finally, Deputy Dopey said “It was sent to a couple hundred people, so it wasn’t specifically targeted to you.”

So, the Sheriff of Searcy County Arkansas was hacked and its email is used to help the hacker convince old ladies who are on medication to enter their email and password. Many hours later, the sheriff still has not sent an email blast warning folks not to click on the “Dropbox” link.

A concerned citizen who is now likely to have further fraud committed against her by the hackers called and the Sheriff did not want to investigate. They made no effort to discover anything like IP addresses or anything that might be helpful to a computer forensics expert.

I’m glad Sheriff Kenney Cassell, who has a pleasant demeanor, has no brain. If he did, it would get lonely being the only one in the sheriff station.

There is an intermission when D.D. investigates. Grab a bite to eat or fast forward to 6:01.