Bank vice-president and Mother, worked together to steal idenities

A mother and daughter ‘team’ has pleaded guilty to charges relating to identity theft. The daughter worked as a bank vice president business development officer, at the Bank of the West and stole customer’s information. The mother then used her job as a real-estate agent, to find vacant homes where the fraudulent credit cards could be sent and picked up.

• Story link from seattletimes.com, posted on Oct. 3, 2008 – http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008224241_idtheft03.html

A Kennewick woman admitted she helped her daughter devise a scheme to steal people’s identities with information her daughter had access to as a bank vice president.

Cynthia Jean Walker, 54, also admitted that she used her job as a licensed real-estate agent to find vacant homes where the fraudulent credit cards could be sent and picked up.