JACKSONVILLE, Fla. A member of Navy FCU opened 31 different accounts at the credit union online and by phone, which he allegedly then used to engineer a scheme that siphoned $63,000 from ATMs.
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Once the accounts were opened, 33-year-old Janie Smith, known as “Pumpkin,” would deposit checks through the ATM into 31 different accounts, police said. They said the checks returned “Unable to Locate Account” and “Closed Account.”
Cash withdrawals and point-of-sale transactions were conducted against the deposits, causing the credit union to suffer a loss of $63,010 on those accounts, police said.
Smith was charged with fraudulent use of personal identification information, 31 counts of bank fraud, and organized fraud.
