Updated December 13, 2018

The owner of a UPS store in Middle Tennessee recently stepped in to prevent an elderly customer from getting tricked into mailing thousands of dollars to a con artist.

The man went to the store in Mt. Juliet on Monday and requested to overnight $4,000 to bail a family member out of jail.

According to the Mt. Juliet Police Department, the scammer posed as an attorney from another state and told the man not to tell anyone about the money.

The store owner contacted detectives, who later determined it was a scam.

Police are still working to identify and find the person behind the scam.