Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Jamie Wyatt pulled over a male driver on Sunday for speeding, however, the routine traffic stop soon turned into an investigation of fraud as the driver revealed the reason he was speeding was because his ‘girlfriend’ had messaged him saying she was at the Food City gas station and being harassed.

Deputy Wyatt asked the driver what car his ‘girlfriend’ was driving, and he responded saying he didn’t know. He was going to meet her for the first time that night as she was coming from Ohio.

Deputy Wyatt contacted Food City who said no one had been at the gas station for a few minutes, only for the driver to now say his ‘girlfriend’ was supposedly inside the store.

Wyatt said in his report that after getting permission and looking over the driver’s messages to his ‘girlfriend’, it was obvious that the incident was a scam to get Apple gift cards. Officer J. Nash went inside the store to search and didn’t find any woman matching the chat profile the driver had shown Deputy Wyatt.

The driver had been speaking with the woman over Google Chat, who had convinced the driver to send $300 in Apple gift cards over the past two months but hadn’t given any information such as social security, credit cards, or banking info.