A rural Saline County man is out $2,800 after falling victim to a telephone scam.

Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan said Friday that the 46-year-old man received a call Thursday from someone claiming to be with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The person said that a car found at the Mexican border with blood all over it had been rented using the Saline County man’s credit card and that the FBI would be freezing the man’s bank account, Soldan said.

The caller told the man that if he still wanted access to his money while the account was frozen, he should immediately put the money from the account onto Target gift cards and then give the caller the gift card numbers so that the FBI could keep his money safe, Soldan said.

The man complied and put $2,800 onto three Target gift cards, Soldan said. He told deputies that he checked the balances on the cards after he had given the numbers to the alleged FBI agent and the money was gone.