COFFEY COUNTY—Law enforcement authorities are investigating a phone scam.
According to police a Burlington, Kansas woman was scammed out of $1,100 August 8.
She received a call from someone posing as David Thirolf with PayPal. The man told her someone had taken money from her account but he could help her get it back and catch the thief.
He told her to purchase prepaid cards and give him the information on the back of them.
She went to Dollar General and Family Dollar and purchased one Gamestop card at each store.
The victim claims she only gave Thirolf information off one card, but when police checked the cards, all the money was gone from both cards.