A Pennsylvania man being held in a county jail on a $1 millionbond is accused of using a popular social media site to make morethan $62,000 in fraudulent check deposits and steal more than$22,000 from the $4.1 billion Pennsylvania State Employees Credit Union in Harrisburg,according to the Dauphin County District Attorney's office.

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Masharad Tunis Carter, 24, of Lower Paxton Township, Pa., isfacing 399 theft, forgery and conspiracy charges.

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Carter, a PSECU member, allegedly used the social media siteInstagram to lure debit card holders and offered them cash to usetheir debit cards to deposit checks into their accounts, accordingto the police affidavit. Police found that some of the fraudulentchecks were stolen.

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After Carter allegedly deposited more than $62,000 in fraudulentchecks in 14 different PSECU accounts from December 2012 toNovember 2013, he then withdrew $22,640 from ATMs in Pennsylvaniaand New Jersey, according to a police affidavit filed last week inMagisterial District Court in Harrisburg.

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Police began investigating the alleged theft after receivinginformation from a loss prevention investigator at PSECU.

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PSECU video surveillance showed a person depositing checks intocredit union accounts using the debit cards and pin numbersprovided by most of the credit union members, according to police.However, police also said some PSECU members insisted that theirdebit card was stolen, but they were unable to explain how thesuspect knew their PIN number.

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One of the accounts Carter used belonged to Yasim Khaif Carter,22, also of Lower Paxton Township, who is facing 34 theft countsfor allegedly stealing more than $800 from PSECU, according toPennLive, a news site that covers central Pennsylvania.

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The police investigation also revealed Masharad Carter allegedlydeposited fraudulent checks into his own PSECU account.

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A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for Masharad Carter onNov. 29 before Magisterial District Court Judge Barbara W.Pianka.

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