Weymouth bank teller pleads guilty to helping steal $800k from customer accounts

BOSTON — A woman from Randolph pleaded guilty Thursday in connection with a scheme to impersonate bank employees and fraudulently withdraw money from their bank accounts, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts.

Carlyann Amos, 21, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and one count of aiding and abetting aggravated identity theft.

Prosecutors said Amos was working as a bank teller at a Santander Bank in Weymouth in 2017 when she was recruited to help conduct fraudulent transactions in bank accounts. On two separate occasions, once in December 2017 and again in January 2018, she helped other co-conspirators conduct transactions in the accounts of two customers by using fake driver's licenses.

According to prosecutors, Amos and her co-conspirators fraudulently withdrew more than $815,000 from the two accounts.

The charge of conspiracy to commit bank fraud allows for a sentence of up to 30 years in prison, five years of supervised release and a fine of up to $1 million. The charge of aggravated identity theft allows for a mandatory sentence of two years, to be served consecutively to any other imposed sentence, one year of supervised release and a fine of up to $250,000.

The judge will sentence Amos on January 7.

Santander Bank sent Boston 25 News the following statement:

"We worked with local authorities on this matter. The colleague is no longer employed at Santander and the impacted customers were reimbursed. We take fraud seriously and encourage consumers to closely check their bank account statements each month, and report any fraud or other suspicious activity to their financial institution immediately."

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