ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- A 66-year-old woman was ambushed by armed robbers just as she arrived at her security guard job. Investigators said the men put a gun in her face and wrestled her belongings away from her.

The female security guard was okay, Wednesday morning. She wasn't physically harmed.

Deputies said she pulled into the parking lot of an office building in the Quadrangle on Corporate Boulevard in east Orange County around midnight Tuesday. They said the two suspects followed her there where she stopped at the Bank of New York (see map) where she worked.

She said she got out of her car carrying her purse and a lunch pail when one of them in a dark-colored SUV jumped out and put, what appeared to be, a silver handgun to her face. The robber snatched her purse and then ran back to the SUV and they took off.

In the process, deputies said the robber dropped his weapon, which turned out to be nothing more than a plastic air pistol.

"Even being a police officer, seeing that particular BB gun that was used today, if I saw somebody with that in their hand and they pointed that at me I would shoot my gun at them. I would be in fear that that was an actual firearm," said Spike Hopkins of the Orange County Sheriff's Office.

The security guard did not get a very good description of the person who robbed her because deputies say he was wearing a hoodie and sunglasses. She also was unable to see the tag number of the vehicle that the two men drove off in.

If deputies ever catch t he two responsible, they say that even though they used a fake gun they'll still be charged with armed robbery and crimes against the elderly.