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

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.

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

Police said the men posed as Department of Justice employees when they approached the woman. RANGELEY PLANTATION — Two men from Massachusetts posing as federal workers were behind bars Wednesday, accused of defrauding a woman out of $40,