Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Kevon Alex Northover, 32, was booked into the Alachua County Jail early this morning for allegedly calling customers of Campus USA Credit Union and gathering information that allowed him to transfer money out of their accounts.
A Fraud Analyst at Campus USA Credit Union discovered the scheme in March and told the responding Gainesville Police Department officer that the credit union has seen a pattern in which suspects are calling their customers, pretending to be credit union employees, and asking for their account information. The Fraud Analyst said the phone number shows up as a Campus USA phone number. Once the suspects gain access to the customer’s account, they transfer money to another customer’s account within the credit union.
In one incident in December 2023, a victim told the credit union that someone called him from the credit union’s number and asked him to verify the last four digits of his card, his user ID, and the one-time code sent from the credit union. Four transfers were then made from the customer’s account to another account, totaling $2,583.00. The Fraud Analyst said the funds were transferred from the second account to Northover’s account; the second account and Northover’s account were reportedly opened within days of each other at the same location, and the two account owners can be seen together on surveillance cameras inside the credit union. A teller told the Fraud Analyst that the two men said they were brothers.