The Saline County Sheriff’s Office is investigating two online scam cases.

Undersheriff Roger Soldan said a 52-year-old northwest Saline County man was the victim of an online scam while attempting to sell a GPS unit online.

The man placed an ad on Amazon for the unit and clicked on a link which to took him another site. A short time later, the man begain receiving emails from someone that said they said wanted to purchase the GPS.

Soldan said the two began exchanging emails on October 17th. The man was instructed to obtain an Amazon gift card in the amount of $670 and send the numbers off the gift card to complete the transaction.

After later sending the numbers, the man realized he had been scammed. He notified authorities on Thursday.

A south Salina man, who was attempting to sell a garden tub for $440 on the website LetGo.com, was the target of another online scam.

Soldan said the 55-year-old man was contacted by a prospective buyer on October 19th and was told he would be receiving a check in the mail to cover the cost of the tub.

The man later received a check in the amount of $1,810.35 and was instructed to keep $440 and pay the rest to a shipping company to send the tub.

The check, which was written on the account of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, was later found to be fraudulent after the man called the New York-based medical facility. He then notified authorities on Thursday.

The man did not lose any money in the scam attempt, according to Soldan.