A scammer convinced an employee of a Greeneville restaurant to withdraw money and send it to him through crypto, according to police.
The suspect called Dunkin Donuts on the East Andrew Johnson Highway around 7:30 Friday night and claimed to be a district manager. The man told the employee that a security system that was supposed to be delivered to the store was not completely paid.
The employee was instructed to go to the safe, withdraw money and take it to the gas station next door. The employee took $955 out of the safe, added $47 of their own money and converted it to Bitcoin at the ATM.
The total amount of money taken by the scammer was $1,002 according to the report from the Greeneville Police Department.
