Scammers exploit Nancy Guthrie case with QR code money requests, Pima County sheriff warns

The Pima County Sheriff's Department is informing radical astir a caller scam utilizing Nancy Guthrie.

In a connection connected societal media, the Pima County Sheriff's Department said it's "aware" of posts astir the Guthrie probe which see a QR codification requesting money.

"PCSD volition ne'er inquire for wealth related to this case, oregon immoderate investigation," the section said.

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Nancy Guthrie disappeared from her Tucson location successful the aboriginal greeting hours of Feb. 1, with investigators treating the lawsuit arsenic an evident abduction. Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said nary caller names were being looked astatine successful the lawsuit and hinted astatine technological challenges related to DNA. (Jan Sonnenmair/Getty Images; Courtesy of NBC)

The bureau advised radical to "not nonstop wealth to radical you bash not cognize oregon scan QR codes requesting payment," and asked that they study specified posts if they spot them.

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Nancy Guthrie, the parent of Savannah Guthrie, an anchor connected NBC's "Today" show, has been missing for implicit 164 days.

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Nancy Guthrie, 84, has been missing from her Arizona location since Jan. 31, 2026. (Don Arnold/WireImage/Getty Images)

Savannah Guthrie successful precocious June pleaded with viewers connected the "Today" amusement to travel guardant with immoderate caller accusation aft reports that 1 of the ransom notes sent to her household declared her parent dead.

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"I conscionable privation to instrumentality the accidental to inquire people, to truly to beg radical to travel forward. Somebody knows something. This is simply a caller communicative contiguous that is connected your radar, but this is the beingness that my sister lives, I live, my member lives, our extended families live, our children unrecorded each day. We are successful agony," Savannah Guthrie said

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A Pima County sheriffs authoritative stays extracurricular of Nancy Guthrie‘s location connected Saturday, Feb. 14, 2026 successful Tucson, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ty O'Neil) (Ty ONeil/AP Photo)

"We cannot beryllium astatine bid nary substance however overmuch I effort to travel retired present each time and grin and find that joy, and I will, I committedness I will, this is the infinitesimal to archer you that we request your help. We’re begging for your help. I’m not going to miss that opportunity. And truthful please, if you’re watching, nary substance however tiny the reward is there, you tin archer us. It tin beryllium anonymous. Please bash the close happening for us, for our family, for our children. We emotion our mom. We’ll ne'er halt looking for her, never," Savannah Guthrie added.

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Anyone with information about Nancy Guthrie's disappearance tin telephone the Pima County Sheriff’s Department astatine 520-351-4900 oregon 88-CRIME astatine 520-882-7463. Digital photos, video oregon doorbell-camera footage tin beryllium submitted through the FBI at fbi.gov/findguthrie.