--- title: Chase Employees Charged With Creating Fake ATM Cards to Steal From Accounts description: A ring led by two Chase bankers was charged with stealing over $400,000 from high-balance accounts of elderly or dead customers. authors: - name: Ethan Wolff-Mann url: https://money.com/author/ethan-wolff-mann/ at_money_since: 2015 articles: 160 covers: - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Personal Finance - Professional Services - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://x.com/ewolffmann former_staff: true published: '2015-12-29T19:41:23.000Z' modified: '2015-12-29T19:41:23.000Z' section: Banking tags: - Banking - fraud - identify theft - Security word_count: 208 canonical: https://money.com/chase-employees-fake-atm-cards/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Customer using a Chase Bank ATM](https://img.money.com/2015/12/151229_em_fakeatm.jpg) *A customer uses an ATM at a branch of Chase Bank in New York.* Two bankers at a Chase bank in Brooklyn have been charged with systematically dipping into people's accounts, using fake ATM cards they created to siphon off money. Using 15 bank accounts of elderly—or, in the case of eight of them, dead—Chase customers who had high balances thanks to regular social security deposits, bankers Dion Allison and Jonathan Francis and two accomplices made a series of withdrawals over two years, according to the indictment. By gaining access and fraudulently issuing themselves ATM cards, they nabbed over $400,000, [reports the *New York Times*](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/29/nyregion/2-bankers-charged-with-creating-atm-cards-to-steal-from-accounts.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=2), which viewed State Supreme Court filings charging the men. In addition to ATM scam, the bankers were able to give themselves power of attorney to take out even more money, since they could use a teller, which isn't subject to the ATM daily withdrawal limits. One of the accounts was completely drained this way. According to the *Times,* JPMorgan Chase has had a few other fraud-related problems this year, most notably financial adviser Michael Oppenheim, who [stole $20 million](http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2015/04/16/jpmorgan-investment-adviser-fraud/25891775/). Another employee [sold customer data](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-28/ex-jpmorgan-worker-arrested-by-fbi-over-theft-of-consumer-data) and social security information to an undercover officer. This kind of fraud is far from common, but it's another reason to review your bank statements on a regular basis. *[The New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/29/nyregion/2-bankers-charged-with-creating-atm-cards-to-steal-from-accounts.html?_r=0)* ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/chase-employees-fake-atm-cards/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Banking", "item": "https://money.com/banking/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Bank Accounts", "item": "https://money.com/bank-accounts/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Chase Employees Charged With Creating Fake ATM Cards to Steal From Accounts" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/chase-employees-fake-atm-cards/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/chase-employees-fake-atm-cards/", "name": "Chase Employees Charged With Creating Fake ATM Cards to Steal From Accounts", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2015-12-29T19:41:23.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/chase-employees-fake-atm-cards/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/chase-employees-fake-atm-cards/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2015-12-29T19:41:23.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "Chase Employees Charged With Creating Fake ATM Cards to Steal From Accounts", "articleSection": "Banking", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2015/12/151229_em_fakeatm.jpg", "width": 3150, "height": 2100, "caption": "151229_em_fakeatm" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ethan Wolff-Mann", "url": "https://money.com/author/ethan-wolff-mann/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/ethan-wolff-mann/#author", "sameAs": [ "https://x.com/ewolffmann" ] } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2015-12-29T19:41:23.000Z", "description": "A ring led by two Chase bankers was charged with stealing over $400,000 from high-balance accounts of elderly or dead customers.", "abstract": "A ring led by two Chase bankers was charged with stealing over $400,000 from high-balance accounts of elderly or dead customers.", "@id": "https://money.com/chase-employees-fake-atm-cards/", "inLanguage": "en-US", "dateModified": "2015-12-29T19:41:23.000Z", "wordCount": 208, "keywords": [ "Banking", "fraud", "identify theft", "Security" ], "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Bank", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank" ] }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Bank account", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_account" ] } ] } ] } ```