A New York man has been arrested after police say he scammed a Dartmouth woman out of $86,500.

Arman Verma, 21, of Queens was arrested following what the Dartmouth Police Department called a reverse sting operation by local detectives and a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent.

According to the department, in May, the victim told police she had received several phone calls over the last weeks of that month from a man who told her he worked for Bank of America and Microsoft. The man told her that her bank account and computer had been “compromised” and she would need to pay to fix the issue.

Police said the man sent another person to pick up “substantial amounts of cash” from the victim at her home five times over a few weeks. Each time, she was first told to take a photo of the cash an

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