A man who orchestrated a scheme to steal more than $ 1 million from banks has been sentenced to five years behind bars.
In a new press release, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) says that Oliver Tejada, 25, from the Bronx, New York, received a 60 -month prison sentence for limiting an arrangement that stole cash of 11 different bank branches, of which 10 were located in the eastern district of Pennsylvania.
Authorities say that Tejada and his co-samplers have stolen more than $ 1 million from 23 victims, although in some cases the banks have caught and reversed their transactions, so that the banks lost a total of $ 780,837.
To deduct their arrangement, Tejada and his fellow samplers would focus on the elderly and other victims to obtain their private bank account information, call banks to collect additional information about their goals and then use a cheater with fraudulent documents, such as a Nep-ID, to get into different branches or to make major recordings or transfers.
The transfers would be sent to a account of someone who was recruited to receive the money and to take the bill out quickly.
In some cases, the cheaper would use the fake identification documents to obtain a bank card.
Tejada was originally charged in May 2024 and earlier this year he argued guilty of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud and aggravated identity theft.
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