Sweetwater County Sheriff's Office

The agency says shady car repair scams and outrageous towing and impound fees cost people in the U.S. tens of billions of dollars each year.

Some of the scams focus on romance, technology support, government impersonation schemes, and several other areas.

You should also never call phone numbers in such messages, even to tell the messager to stop contacting you.

The man was found Sunday morning, trying to paddle back upstream to his vehicle.

With many con artists using "spoofing", the calls can appear to originate in Wyoming.

Detectives say they found a stolen flatbed trailer, as well as stolen tools, toolboxes and suspicious big game carcasses when they executed a search warrant in Rawlins.