A Salina man may be out nearly $100,000 after receiving a call early last month claiming he would be arrested if he didn’t pay taxes he owed to the Internal Revenue Service.

Police Captain Mike Sweeney said the man sent a $23,000 cashier’s check and a box containing $55,000 in cash to Ohio, and purchased 29 prepaid Visa cards worth $500 each, and gave the numbers of the cards over the phone to another man.

The man, who is in his 70s and lives in central Salina, received the first phone call on May 1st. Police were notified by the man’s bank on Monday as they were concerned he may have be a victim of a scam. The man may be out $92,500.

Sweeney said the IRS will never call you and threaten to have you arrested if you don’t make immediate payments.

Also any legitimate business or office will not ask you to make payments with a Moneygram, Western Union wire, or prepaid Visa or other type of prepaid card.

Once money is sent via a wire, it is virtually impossible to recover the money.