A financial crimes investigator at the $1.5 billion TruMark Financial Credit Union helped Philadelphia police arrest a 21-year-old man who was running a phony check scheme.

The Trevose, Pa.-based credit union lost $8,000 because of the fraud, but work by TruMark Financial Crimes Investigator Linda Volz prevented the theft of an additional $22,000. Volz also thwarted the theft of an unknown amount of funds at three other financial institutions, Vincent J. Market, TruMark Financial's chief financial officer, said Tuesday.

About 14 TruMark Financial accounts were affected by the fraud.

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