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3 Arrested In Bank Fraud Scheme

POSTED: Thursday, May 15, 2008
UPDATED: 9:31 pm EDT May 15, 2008

A former Jacksonville bank employee and two men with whom police said she was in cahoots were recently arrested and charged with organizing a scheme to defraud the Bank of America.

Investigators said Talonshia Watson, Roland Lott and Shedrick Thomas all worked together to illegally transfer money from the accounts of customers at the Bank of America.

According to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Watson worked at the Bank of America office on the Southside in 2005, and used her position to view customer account information.

Watson worked at the bank through a temporary agency, and was employed there between August and September of 2005.

Investigators said it was during that time that she gave customers’ bank account information to her boyfriend Thomas.

Investigators said Thomas would call Bank of America customer service with the information and transfer money into other accounts. That’s where Lott comes in the picture.

Police said Lott, recruited “numerous persons to provide their BOA account numbers … Lott then transported persons to BOA branches in Jacksonville, Florida to withdraw funds.”

Investigators said they requested more than $462,000 worth of fraudulent transfers; however, the bank caught on and was able to stop some of the transfers.

Nonetheless, the bank lost more than $208,000, investigators said.

A Bank of America spokesperson told Channel 4 they have extensive fraud detection measures in place and that their customers are protected if they report it right away. The money taken fraudulently from customers’ accounts has been returned.

Police said more arrests could be made in the case.
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