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A former employee for North Carolina’s largest credit union will be sentenced in August after she admitted to making 867 fraudulent transactions that siphoned nearly $80,000 from more than 20 member accounts over two and a half years, federal prosecutors said.
Jillian Scott, 31, of Lumberton, pleaded guilty to bank fraud and misuse of Social Security numbers during a federal court hearing last week, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office in Raleigh.
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Scott worked remotely as a member call representative using a laptop provided by the $55.3 billion State Employees’ Credit Union (SECU) in Raleigh.
From November 2018 to June 2021, Scott used the personally identifiable information from members’ accounts to create fraudulent PayPal and CashApp accounts in their names.
She then used the PayPal and CashApp accounts to transfer money from members’ accounts to bank accounts owned and controlled by Scott.
She also created fraudulent Bill Pay checks, which she used to move money from the SECU members’ accounts into her own accounts.
According to an information document that prosecutors filed outlining the charges against Scott, from April 2021 to June 2021, Scott used a PayPal account to conduct 25 debit transactions of more than $1,600 using one SECU member’s account. She also created seven Bill Pay checks from that same account totaling more than $10,000.
Most of these checks were made payable to another SECU member who also had been victimized by Scott’s fraud. But prosecutors also noted in their information document that the checks were mailed to an address of an individual who was not a SECU member.
Prosecutors, however, did not indicate whether other persons were involved in Scott’s scheme.
Scott’s two plea deal documents remained sealed from public and media access.
Her lawyer declined to comment.
In total, Scott executed 688 fraudulent CashApp transactions totaling $5,468, 120 PayPal transactions totaling$11,245 and 47 fraudulent Bill Pay transactions that amounted to $62,774, for a total loss of nearly $80,000, according to federal prosecutors.
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Peter Strozniak
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