diff --git a/app/services/upload_sanitizer.rb b/app/services/upload_sanitizer.rb
index 132669c884..4f5fc2bb3a 100644
--- a/app/services/upload_sanitizer.rb
+++ b/app/services/upload_sanitizer.rb
@@ -13,6 +13,6 @@ class UploadSanitizer
   private
 
   def strip_bom_character
-    @data.gsub("\xEF\xBB\xBF".force_encoding("UTF-8"), '')
+    @data.scrub.gsub("\xEF\xBB\xBF".force_encoding("UTF-8"), '')
   end
 end