The state Attorney General’s Office has accused 27 Dauphin County residents of participating in a widespread bank fraud scheme that drained an additional $2.3 million from six area banks.
The sister case joins a wave of arrests in Cumberland County last year, bringing the total number of conspirators up to 48 people.
The conspirators would pose as bank employees of fraud departments and bait victims into providing their login information over the phone, the attorney general’s office and state police investigators wrote in arrest documents.
They would then lock their bank accounts and funnel the money to secondary accounts, arrest documents said.
Victims told investigators they were asked by the suspects to provide their personal information, including online banking logins, passwords and two-factor identification codes that suspects sent to them while accessing their accounts.
They’d…