Former bank teller used customer information to transfer $930,000 to a cryptocurrency account, charged with federal fraud

According to CBS Atlanta, a 35-year-old woman from Stone Mountain, Georgia, named Mercedes Henry, a former universal bank employee at Ameris Bank, has been accused of unauthorized linking of six customers' bank accounts to the cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase between September and November 2021, and in collusion with others, transferring approximately $931,000 into a Coinbase account under her control.

A federal grand jury has charged her with multiple counts of bank fraud, access device fraud, and bribery. Henry was arrested on September 25 and appeared in court, and the case is still under investigation by the FBI.