A bank employee’s second phone call may have stopped an alleged $30,000 identity theft scheme before the money left a Somerset, Massachusetts, man’s account.
Five people were arrested after police said they tried to withdraw $30,000 from the victim’s account at Rockland Trust Bank on Slades Ferry Avenue. The suspects had allegedly assumed the man’s identity and changed the phone number tied to his account.
That change nearly worked. When bank employees called to verify the withdrawal, police said they initially reached one of the suspects, who allegedly approved the transaction…