A man is out $4,944 after falling for a scam. Lancaster County Sheriff Terry Wagner says they received a call from a 63 year old man who stated he received an email claiming to be from Microsoft stating they owned him $399. The man recently did business with Microsoft so assumed the email was legitimate.
The man gave scammers access to his computer to apparently deposit the money into his account. Sheriff Wagner says the scammers made it appear that $3,999 had been deposited and then called out the error. They said the only way to correct it was to go out and buy gift cards and call them back with the numbers.
The man later realized it was a scam and and contacted the Sheriff’s Department on July 30th.