she's been coming into branches for the last few weeks taking money she's not who she says she is she's taken a lot of money from these people she has an ID it's clearly a fake ID um I guess there's what's going on with your account I don't know that's what I'm trying to figure out all right do you have your ID with you she has it I was just going to turn it for you okay um he said you read he read you Miranda already do you understand all that okay um would you like to speak with me for a few minutes we've all heard of scammers committing irrational crimes from gift card scams to credit card scams in this case a scammer stole someone's complete identity that's right she pretended to be someone else to make matters worse she was depositing fake checks into her victim's bank account and immediately withdrawing the amount after the check cleared is he in there how are you is my partner in there he with the girl okay so I just want to give you a little bit of a history without her hearing me okay she's been coming into branches for the last few weeks taking money yesterday we got a call from back office she's not who she says she is they've already blocked the account we've confirmed with the client that this is not her she's taken a lot of money from these people she has an when officers arrived they met with the city bank manager who stated that the suspect took over $50,000 in just 3 months however what the scammer didn't know is that her days of theft would end today can I speak to you for a second yes sure all right um I guess there's what's going on with your account I don't know that's what I'm trying to figure out all right do you have your ID with you she has it she has it all right um what's your name gra yeah she has all the information okay let's go over to the counter I was going to use the restroom um well give it a second all right okay thank you all right here let's just go to the counter here could you see that we get her ID I guess there's some confusion about who you are and what your accounts are go outside no no no no here have a seat right here for here have a seat all right now who gave you this check um it's right here okay um and what did they give you the check for um I'm a lawyer so okay all right so it's for uh Services yes sir all right and you live in Coral Gables right now yes I have an Airbnb that I'm doing in Baya okay so so what does laraza Enterprises do it's um one of the um my my clients with the like like what kind of work do you what what the what what business are they in um I'm not sure it's my client he wrote the the check okay say he your client but you don't does no sorry is a person or actual business no it's a person [Music] come here and need a translated yeah I need to know what's going on I just told your partner so she's been coming into two branches the last few weeks withdraw money we got a um an email from back office yesterday that this is not the client so so um so this company they said did not issue her factual person uhuh does not this is not her that's not her we we've got emails yesterday from back off office that that person has not came into a branch at all she lives in Coral Gables that's where she does all her banking she does not come to Del so so she's not correct and uh we don't know who she is that's correct I have a client who needs a translator in the lob I'm not sure what she needs she's sitting down she she came in yesterday and immediately after I did the transaction we received emails from the um the representative for the client because they're actually kind of a high level client and um this Lage enterpris no no it's it's the exact same name as her um and there's also another signer on the account so it's the two of them has nothing to do with any business at least on their personal accounts but that's where she's transacting is the personal account the account number we saying she's this is a fake ID it it's got to be cuz that's not her that is the address of the client um but that's not her and she's also gone to the Boon Branch um and they we looked at their transactions they never come up here they're like Coral Gables right yeah so yeah they confirmed that it's not she is not the client she is not the client but and and and there is a client named she is not her okay she is not her oh okay I'm still confused so how do they know that who she is they um they looked at their banking their online banking and saw transactions that were not authorized by the client so they contacted the Cent seeing is no no the client is I don't know where this check came from She's depositing it yesterday she deposited a check and made a withdrawal and that's so they saw on their online banking that um they saw in the online banking that they did not do the clients did not do the trans actions so they verified it's confirmed fraud she is committing fraud this woman and she's trying to deposit this trying to deposit yest she took cash back but that is not her they confirmed it last night we've been emailing back and forth since since like almost immediately after the transaction what brought you up here I have an Airbnb that I'm working on in bisaya oh nice bisaya that's far from here isn't it no it's you on bre Atlanta oh that b guy I was think D this guy what do you drive um what color is [Music] it let me just check this in the car I'll be right back a white all right [Applause] here me yeah so I'm on the phone um this client is right now in a police station in Miami right now this uh the actual lady is in a police station right now in Miami correct mhm yeah well this is this is the actual woman yeah that's similar but not you know but not definitely not think I not speak to them because I have them on the phone or does that not matter no no it it'll be good to speak to them um they're in the police department she's in a police department in Miami um have have her speak to an officer to get a sworn statement sworn statement yeah a sworn statement of if possible on video if not paper is good perfect okay all right I think we figured this out all right I'm rep to warn you before you make any statements that they have the following constitutional rights okay you have the right to remain silent not answer any questions do you understand yeah the right to remain any statement you make must be freely and voluntarily give G stand yes sir you have the right to the presence and representation of a lawyer of your choice before you make any statements and there any question you understand all right you said you're a lawyer so I guess right understand all right I guess the big question is um while I have your driver's license in hand what's your real name that is name I'll speak to my attorney you can do that thank you all right I'm going to place you under arrest yes sir okay you could just step down yeah no problem doing I'm just trying to make it comfortable for you if you do it like you're praying it's more comfortable let's gra this one should put these things down first all right I'm placing under for fraud okay all right what we're going to do is I'm going to collect some information hang with her for a second while I get some disappointing stuff I guess you were here yesterday you withdrew some money okay I'm just going to talk to my attorney all right sounds good the woman upheld the criminal code and refused to make any statements she was taken down to the local jail where detectives would attempt to have a talk with her statement from her um City Bank said I have to subpoena everything would you a sworn statement video copies of the documents the only thing I got is the check today and and and I spoke to the actual victim who said she doesn't know who this woman is she doesn't know how she got her information and she doesn't even know who this uh company is okay but she was trying to um deposit and basically yesterday she deposited um yesterday she deposited a $5,800 check from some company called axio and she withdrew 4,000 immediately after so she stole 4,000 and today she was going to attempt to deposit that we don't know how much she was going to withdraw okay okay did you read Miranda yeah okay okay um he said you read he read you Miranda already do you understand all that um would you like to speak with me for a few minutes no I just want to talk to my attorney okay and you said you did get the real her real name and everything MH okay okay thank you the fake lawyer was taken into jail after refusing to cooperate it turns out she had taken over $50,000 in a matter of a few months from numerous victims she was given 9 months of probation but while on probation she committed more fraud which eventually turned into a federal investigation I guess crime doesn't pay write your comments below and see you next time