Franklin County Sheriff Scott Nichols Sr. said in a news release Wednesday evening that the men posed as Department of Justice employees when they approached the woman. After Sheriff’s Office deputies learned of the scam, they waited at the woman’s home, arresting the pair when they came for more money.

Two Massachusetts men are accused of posing as federal workers and scamming a Maine woman out of $40,000 in a PayPal scam.

The men were arrested when they returned to the woman's home to collect an additional $32,000, authorities said.

Detective David Davol of the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a woman in Rangeley Plantation who had been defrauded of $40,000 as part of a “PayPal” scam.

Two men from Massachusetts were arrested in Rangeley Plantation on Wednesday after police say they posed as federal workers and defrauded a Maine woman to the amount of $40,000. The fraud investigation in Franklin County started a day earlier on Tuesday when detectives received the initial report of a suspected PayPal scam targeting a woman in Rangeley Plantation.