NEW YORK (1010 WIINS) -- Officials are investigating after a woman in Westchester claimed she was scammed out of $80,000 by at least two men who posed as Amazon employees.
According to Westchester County investigators, the Scarsdale Police Department received a report last week from a woman who alleged to have been the victim of a computer and phone scheme.
The woman received an "Amazon" email earlier this month asking if she had purchased a computer for $800, which she had not, police said.
The woman called a phone number provided in the email where she was told that if she didn't want the computer mailed to her, she should cancel the order through her computer, officials said.
She was then instructed to type $800 into a link provided on her computer in order for the money to be refunded but the woman noticed that as she was typing $800 into her computer, there were two more zeroes appeared in the file, totaling to $80,000 without her consent.
A second male claiming to be an "Amazon supervisor" then got on the phone and asked the woman to wire transfer the extra money that was mistakenly computer back to "Amazon," to which she complied, authorities said.
The woman made three wire transfers over the next few days to an unknown account that totaled $80,000, according to police.
Investigators discovered that the cash had been transferred from the woman's personal account to a bank in Bangkok, Thailand according to the Daily Voice.
The woman's bank also launched an internal investigation looking into the incident in order to attempt to put a stop to the money transfer.
