A middle-aged man was scammed $5,000 over the phone while in the lobby of the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office last week by someone claiming to be a deputy. According to Boulder County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Carrie Haverfield, the man came into the lobby on Jan. 25 and was standing near the front desk talking on his phone. The records staff employee was helping another visitor and when she came back to help the man he was sitting in the lobby no longer on the phone, so she assumed he was waiting for someone. Then a minute later the man approached the front desk and said he believed he just been scammed.