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Police are cautioning people to be alert to fraudulent e-mails and other scams after a 60-year-old Boggs Township man lost $2,400 to a con man.
State police said the man was contacted via the Internet by someone in Nigeria requesting money to get back to the United States. The victim was sent a check for $2,580 from a fictitious account based in New York, and was asked to cash it and send the money via Western Union back to Nigeria.
Between Jan. 20 and Jan. 25, the man wired two separate transactions via Western Union, one for $800 and the second for $1,600. He was later notified by his bank that the check he'd received was fraudulent. The incident was reported to state police on March 9.
Police said e-mails from unknown individuals Nigeria or other nations seeking money are scams, and people should not respond to any such requests.
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