In a case investigated by the task force, three females visited various bank branch offices requesting $8,000 cash advances.
The women claimed that they needed to contact their bank in order to determine how much credit and/or prepaid funding was
available on the card they were using. A call was then placed using cell phones or the banks land lines and the women pretended to
speak to a bank representative requesting information on the available funds. The teller was then asked to speak with the person
on the other end of the phone. This person walked the teller through the transaction, forcing an override authorization code
into the system to authorize the $8,000 cash advances.
In reality, the person on the other end of the phone was an actor playing the part of a bank or
credit card representative and was in on the scam. The credit cards that the women presented were counterfeit.
