Police are searching for a woman wanted in connection with a six-figure fraudulent withdrawal from a 91-year-old woman’s bank account. The victim discovered the fraud when she visited her local bank on the Upper East Side.
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The 91-year-old went to the bank, which is in the 19th Precinct, at about 2:05 p.m. on Friday, October 16, and found fraudulent activity on her Citibank account, according to the police report.Investigators found that on Monday, October 5, an unidentified woman withdrew $109,000 from the victim’s account at a Citibank branch at 45 Graham Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, according to the report. She then left, and police don’t know where she went.
The NYPD has released images of the woman it’s looking for.
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