A northeast Kansas sheriff is warning residents of a new scam circulating the area claiming to raise funds for President-Elect Trump.

Brown County Sheriff John Merchant said the sheriff’s office has received several reports of county residents being contacted over the phone by an individual trying to collect money to help fund President-Elect Donald Trump.

“In many cases when we have scam reports the caller has a heavy accent.  In this case all reports said the caller has no accent whatsoever,” Merchant said. “They visit with these folks ahead of time and everything else and then they switch to politics and when it’s found out that these folks have voted for Donald Trump then they try to say how a donation would be appreciated to keep things going.”

Merchant said so far, in all cases reported the residents have hung up and have not fallen victim to the phone scam.  Also, so far Merchant said the alleged scammers have not called back.

“This is evidently a scam and we’re reminding everybody not to give out any personal information,” Merchant said. “Once they get your account numbers and everything like that they can clean you out of all your hard earned money.”

Merchant said so far in the reports the phone number from the scammer has been unavailable.

“I appreciate that residents inform us of these types of calls so we can give the public a heads up,” Merchant said.