Six men have been arrested for allegedly stealing the identities of bank customers across southern New England and taking out large sums of money in a scheme that withdrew millions of dollars, prosecutors said.
With the help of bank insiders, the six men, all arrested Friday, have used data including Social Security numbers and bank account numbers to take steal money from banks in Masssachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut since at least December 2022, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Friday.
The scheme allegedly involved people with fake IDs posing as bank customers going in person to bank locations and withdrawing large sums through cashier’s checks that they deposited into accounts they controlled. Prosecutors said they recruited people inside the banks — they didn’t say which — to help give access to customer information and turn off unauthorized withdrawal alerts…