AUBURN – So it’s the holiday season and you want to do something nice. Police are reminding people that Christmas is a time for scams and schemes as well as good cheer.

Recently, a group of people have been calling residents in Lewiston and Auburn and soliciting funds for the Edward Little High School booster club.

“It’s a big scam,” said Lewiston police Lt. Michael McGonagle.

The first victim was a man in Lewiston who was called by a person claiming to be raising funds for the E.L. group, McGonagle said. The caller offered to sell a sports poster and insisted the money would be given to the booster club.

Instead, police contacted the U.S. Postal Service and an investigation got under way. McGonagle said the address provided by the scam operator proved to be a post office box in Portland.

Mail sent to that address is forwarded to another post office box in Henderson, Nev. Police believe the scam might be operating out of that city.

Police in Lewiston have contacted police in Henderson for assistance in the probe, McGonagle said. They have also been in touch with school officials at Edward Little, who confirmed there is no such fundraiser.

Police are advising anyone who is called and asked for money for Edward Little to contact Lewiston police Detective Lee Jones at 795-9000.