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Thief gets $7,200 for empty envelopes

May 24, 2012

A Scranton, Pa.-area man was charged this week with fraudulently withdrawing $7,200 from an ATM last December after depositing empty envelopes into the machine.

According to an article by The Scranton Times-Tribune, Joshua Langston, 37, fed two envelopes into a Fidelity Deposit and Discount Bank ATM, keying in deposit amounts of $3,900 and $3,400. The following morning, Langston withdrew $7,200 from the account before the fraud was discovered.

Then, at another Fidelity location, Langston made another "deposit" of $5,100, the Times-Tribune said, but this time, the fraud was discovered before he could make a withdrawal. 

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