More than $18K Fraudulently Wired From Local Man’s Account, Police Say

Whitemarsh Police said someone fraudulently wired more than $18,000 from a bank account belonging to a Plymouth Meeting resident.

According to police, the 59-year-old Wildflower Drive man said someone had transferred $18,550 from his East River Bank account to Key Bank in Indiana on July 2. The complainant said he did not make the transfer and was not expecting any money to be shuffled around in his account.

The complainant contacted East River Bank and bank representatives told him that someone had sent an email from his AOL account requesting the transfer, police said. East River Bank also said they called someone who they thought was the complainant and got verbal consent for the transfer;  the bank also received written confirmation from a man they believed was the complainant. According to police, the bank said the written confirmation was signed with a signature similar to that of the complainant’s.

East River Bank refunded all of the man’s money and a fraud alert was placed on all of his accounts.