A woman in Brookfield, Wisconsin, thought she had discovered a wallet with $150,000 inside but ended up losing $2,000.
The woman, who asked to remain anonymous, said she was walking through a parking lot when a woman called out to her and asked if she had dropped anything.
She held up a brown wallet filled with cash that was ‘the size of a brick’, the woman told Fox6.
They called over a third woman to take a look, and decided to keep the money — splitting it three ways.
‘Well, finders keepers then, huh?’ she in an interview.
A woman who asked to remain anonymous said that she was scammed out of $2,000 on Monday when a woman approached her in a parking lot with a wallet full of cash
She did an interview with Fox6 and said that the woman asked if she had dropped the wallet that was ‘the size of a brick’. They called over another woman to look at it
The three women decided to keep the wallet, and the woman who found it said that she worked at a local real estate office (pictured) and her boss would help them handle the money legally
The woman who found the wallet said she worked at First Weber Realty.
She said her office had a money counting machine, and that her boss would help them draw up paperwork to keep the money legally.
The three women drove together to the office, parked in the back and the woman who found the wallet walked inside.
She came back out with unbelievable news.
‘That there was $150,000 in cash in the wallet,’ she said.
But in order to get the money, she said all three women had to provide some cash to prove they were financially responsible, so the woman walked to a bank and withdrew $2,000.
Back in a parking lot behind the real estate office, the other two women said they had brought their $2,000 in came back with stacks of what looked like real cash.
After pulling $2,000 out of an ATM to prove they were financially stable, the women parked behind the real estate office and went in one by one to collect their cash. The woman interviewed was the last to go in, and the other two drove away with her $2,000 cash
The news station attempted to recreate the wallet in a video segment
When it was the woman’s turn she walked into the real estate office and no one knew what she was talking about.
The two women drove away with her $2,000.
‘I was completely, completely fooled,’ the woman said. ‘I just regret being a part of it.’
Brookfield police are investigating the incident. A spokesman said he’d never heard of this type of scam before.
The real estate company told Fox6 that no one matching the description of the scammers worked there.
The victim said she spent three hours total with the alleged scammers, and while she’s broke, she’s grateful she wasn’t hurt.