A bank cashier who fed confidential details to a fraud ring in a plot to plunder £1million from accounts is facing years behind bars.
Whitney Atease, 23, of Tooting, used her position at HBOS in Surrey Quays to look at 10 accounts and get answers to security questions so that accomplices could pose as genuine clients.
Sarah Giddens, prosecuting, said: "The fraud was operated by a number of individuals who, armed with personal security data and false documentation, and inside information, went into various branches, or used phone or online banking services, and impersonated the genuine customer.
"For this fraud to work the criminals organising it needed willing participants from inside the banking industry. Ms Atease was one such insider." Atease was sacked in April 2007 following an internal investigation.
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Mitigating actions could be:
ReplyDeleteSegregation of duties
Regular verification checks of access to data
Additional security checks - e.g. call back option to telephone number on account.