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Queens woman loses bundle to a Long Island crook through fake check deposit scam

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Photo courtesy NYPD

This is why cops always caution everyone to keep an eye on their bank accounts.

Police are searching for a woman who is wanted for grand larceny for stealing an undetermined amount of funds from a 31-year-old female victim residing in the 104th Precinct.

 

According to sources, on Sept. 14 at 2:30 p.m. the victim found fraudulent activity on her bank account. It was discovered that an unidentified woman — described as either white or Hispanic, between the ages of 25 and 30 years old, and last seen wearing a dark, sleeveless shirt — deposited fraudulent checks into the victim’s account at two undetermined bank locations.

The unidentified female then went to a Chase bank location at 163 West Merrick Rd. in Valley Stream and made a withdrawal of an undetermined amount from the victim’s account using a cloned debit card, law enforcement agents said.

The photo provided by the NYPD was taken from surveillance camera footage during the incident on Sept. 14.

Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577.

All calls and messages will be strictly confidential.