The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office says scammers have come up with a new scheme to defraud area businesses. An employee of a Fort Walton Beach business received an email from someone who she thought was the business owner, instructing her to purchase gift cards using the company’s credit card or her personal credit card to make the gift card purchases and then she would be reimbursed. Luckily, the credit card company texted the real business owner who declined the transaction and contacted the authorities.