A Benton, Arkansas woman admitted recently to bilking elderly credit union members out of thousands of dollars. Service Federal Credit Union (SFCU) is located in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, but Tyra Brown, age 27, was working remotely for the business.
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The complaint, filed August 15, 2023, states that Ms. Brown was a “call center representative from December 31, 2021 until May 19, 2023” and “assisted customers with depositing and withdrawing money, as well as transferring money from their accounts to third parties.”
The credit union maintained in the complaint that toward the end of Brown’s employment, she “improperly accessed credit union members’ accounts to obtain account information, such as the answers to security questions, that she later used to steal funds.”
SFCU claimed that Brown stole around $300,000 and attempted to steal another $126,000 from accounts held by elderly members. She faces up to 20 years in prison, along with a fine of up to $250,000 or twice the gross gain or loss, whichever is greater.
Brown’s guilty plea of one felony count of wire fraud was during a hearing at the Eastern District of Arkansas Federal Court in Little Rock, last week, according to an article in Credit Union Times.
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