Couple Charged in Prepaid Card Scam

RAPID CITY, S.D. – A Las Vegas couple were charged with a prepaid debit card scheme that drained more than $30,000 from three South Dakota financial institutions, including $25,000 from Black Hills FCU. A federal indictment charges that Aigner Angel, 23, and Leo Ramsey, 38, went to the $600 million credit union last Nov. 13 and 14 and tried to get cash advances on bogus prepaid cards. When the cards were rejected for inadequate balance to cover the cash advances, Angel had credit union employees purportedly call the number on the phony cards to obtain authorization. In reality, Angel was calling Ramsey, who provided a fake authorization for the cash advance and instructed the employees how to override the system to obtain authorization, the indictments charge. The defendants were also charged with springing the scheme on the local US Bank and First Dakota National Bank branches.