BURLINGTON, Vt.
The U.S. Attorney General’s office in Vermont said today four men from Quebec have been charged in a scheme involving using stolen account information from Canadians at ATM machines.
Court records say the men traveled from Quebec to Burlington between March and October where they used NBT Bank ATM machines in Essex and Burlington to get cash advances on cards. They appeared in court Tuesday.
Court papers identified them as Mathieu Baaklini, Safwan Bensalma, Brandon Lo, and Nicolau Manfredi.
Court papers say among ATM transaction records, NBT Bank incurred approximately $54,000 in suspected fraud activity in August in the form of 500 suspected cash advances on Canadian and European credit and debit cards.
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