BANK CUSTOMER SCAMMED FOR $48,000

  

Brenham police are investigating at theft case in which an elderly Brenham man was scammed out of $48,000.

Brenham Police Officer Kevin Mertz was called to the Brenham National Bank Thursday, when a bank worker alerted him to some suspicious activity.

A man told the bank employee that he  had been asked to withdrawn$32,000 from four different accounts at four different banks to be sent to ‘the National Treasury’ in Mesa, Arizona.  The man told her someone named Matt Pollard whom he had reason to  trust told him he had won a Publishing Clearing House sweepstakes some two year earlier and they had been trying to contact him. Pollard told the man he needed to send in $16,000.  After the man sent the money, Pollard contacted him again telling him this time he needed to send a total of $32,000, $8000 each from four different banks.   None of the money was withdrawn from the Brenham National Bank. The money had already been delivered by UPS to the Mesa, Arizona address and police are investigating.