How to get one row (Encrypted value) from database with Laravel?

Question

I'm working on a project and I want to use encrypt/decrypt for database values. I encrypted the 'email' field, and it works fine, but when I want to run this query I got an error.

The query: Users::where('email', '[email protected]')->get(); -> in this query I want to get a row where the email is [email protected]

The error: The data types text and nvarchar are incompatible in the equal to operator. (SQL: select * from [users] where [email] = [email protected])"

I tried to CAST it or CONVERT it, but that doesn't work either. Can someone help me how to run this query?

Here is my model:

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Notifiable;

class Users extends Model
{
    use HasFactory, Notifiable;
    protected $table = 'users';
    public $timestamps = false;
    protected $fillable = [
        'username',
        'pwd',
        'email'
    ];

    protected $casts = [
        'email' => 'encrypted'
    ];
}

Thanks for your answers!