A card-cracking scheme at Wells Fargo led by a Henrico County man has resulted in a nearly four-year prison sentence.
Deonte Trent, 31, recruited employees and tellers at the bank for the operation and provided compensation for names, addresses, bank account and Social Security numbers of existing bank customers.
Court documents show that Trent used the information to produce fraudulent checks.
Trent also solicited existing customers of Wells Fargo to allow him to deposit the fraudulent checks into their bank accounts, and after the deposits were complete, would withdraw the funds before the bank realized the checks were fake.
The operation took place from June 2018 through April 2020.
Trent provided guidance and coaching to complicit account holders when those individuals were contacted by representatives of the bank regarding fraudulent checks instructing them to provide them with false information.
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Crystal Graham
