Here's something you don't hear every day, an angry scammer actually threatened a store with a bomb. This is a bit confusing, but here's how it played out.

Fox 17 news reports a 74-year-old man went into a Verizon store in Ionia county to purchase more minutes for his prepaid phone. He needed the minutes so he could claim a million dollar prize a, would be, scammer told him he won.

The scammer originally called the man's prepaid phone and told him he needed to send money overseas to pay for taxes on his prize before he could collect the actual prize money.

When trying to buy more minutes for his phone, he found out that particular Verizon store didn't support his phone. The man instead used the store's landline to make the call so he could start the process of claiming his prize.

That's when he caught on to the scam.

He told the scammer he wouldn't be sending any money, hung up the phone and left the store.

Then the store's phone rang. It was the scammer, this time angry. He was so angry he told employees he was going to "kill them all with a rifle and detonate a bomb in the store.”

Police are investigating but they determined the call came from outside the United States, meanwhile the 74-year-old man was not aware of what had happened.

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