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Wells Fargo call-center employee charged with stealing accountholder info, opening ATM, debit cards

August 17, 2009

The Sacramento (Calif.) Business Journal reports that one of Wells Fargo's bank call-center employees was arrested Friday for accessing customer accounts and stealing money.

The U.S. Attorney's office has reportedly charged Ronita Prasad, 28, with bank fraud, after she accessed the accounts through a protected system without authorization. She later used the customer information to pay her own debts and open credit card accounts and ATM cards.

She now faces up to 30 years in prison and up to five years in additional prison time for breaching a bank's computer security.