Former bank teller charged with federal fraud after using customer information to transfer $930,000 to crypto accounts

TechFlow reports that on September 30, according to CBS Atlanta, Mercedes Henry, a 35-year-old woman from Stone Mountain, Georgia, who previously worked as a bank teller at Ameris Bank, is charged with having, between September and November 2021, without authorization, linked six customers' bank accounts to the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase and conspired with others to transfer approximately $931,000 into a Coinbase account under her control. A federal grand jury has charged her with multiple offenses, including bank fraud, access device fraud, and bribery. Henry was arrested on September 25 and made her initial court appearance, and the case remains under active investigation by the FBI.