Cranberry Township police have charged two people with scamming someone out of $3,500 by one of them pretending to be a PNC Bank representative.

Kesyon Q. Heard, 29, of Chicago, was charged with felonies conspiracy, theft, and criminal use of a communication facility, and Amaya Green, 21, of Glenwood, Ill., was charged with felony criminal use of a communication facility and misdemeanor theft and conspiracy.

Police said on Aug. 1, 2022, a man received a text message, seemingly from PNC Bank. The text asked if the man had sent $2,500 to Truist Bank through the payment app Zelle.

The man replied “no,” and was contacted by a person claiming to be a PNC Bank representative.

Police said the person had the man send $1,000 to a phone number later determined to be Heard’s and an additional $1,500 to a phone number later determined to be Green’s to “reverse the original transaction.”

The man told officers that the representative contacted him again Aug. 2 and asked him to transfer another $1,000 to an unknown phone number.

At this point, the man said he called PNC Bank and spoke with a bank representative who told him he was involved in a scam. A total of $3,500 had been deducted from the man’s PNC account.

Police were able to determine that $2,000 had been sent to Heard, and $1,500 had been sent to Green during the time period in question.

Preliminary hearings for Heard and Green have not yet been scheduled.