DAVIE, Fla. — A fraudster named Friday was arrested on Friday in Davie for his role in a six-figure bank scam targeting a woman who lives in the town, police said in court documents made public on Wednesday.
Miles Friday, 23, of Hollywood, remained in the Broward jail on three felony charges Wednesday. Authorities said he admitted to posing as representatives from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and several banks over the phone to carry out the con.
According to an arrest report from the Davie Police Department, the woman first got a phone call from someone claiming to be with U.S. Bank on Dec. 29, asking her whether she had authorized a supposed transaction at a GameStop store in Dallas.
After the woman said no, the caller claimed he was escalating the matter to the “fraud department,” police said. That’s when a man named “Connor Wilson” got on the line.
“Connor Wilson,” police said, was actually Friday.
Police said Friday began rattling off recent transactions the woman made, leading her to believe that the call was legitimate. They said he told her that he had information that someone was trying to conduct $45,000 and $55,000 wire transactions from her Fidelity Bank accounts.
According to the report, Friday convinced the woman that “he would be able to help her by having her conduct wire transfers for the same amounts” to federal government accounts, “so as soon as the FDIC investigated it, the money would be put back into her account.”
Police said he convinced the woman to wire $45,000 to a man in the Chicago suburb of Skokie, Illinois, “with the belief that the money would be back in her account in two days.”
Authorities said Friday then convinced the woman to wire $55,000 from her Fidelity account to her Truist Bank account and then withdraw the cash.
Police said Friday, posing as “Wilson,” stayed on the phone with the victim “for hours at a time” as she conducted each transaction “and told her she could not tell anyone at the bank what was going on because they might be involved in the original wire transfers (he) was supposedly investigating.”
“According to Wilson, their goal was to find these employees because FDIC will arrest them and ‘put them in jail,’” the report states. “(The victim) told Wilson she wanted to help because she hated people who broke the law.”
The report states that Friday even convinced the woman that her husband may be involved.
Authorities said he got the woman to visit multiple Truist branches in Broward County to make withdrawals, having her place the cash into Uber Courier vehicles ordered by Friday. All told, the report states the woman lost $203,000 before DPD got involved.
Police said they set up a sting in which Friday had the woman go to the Truist Bank branch at 13636 W. State Road 84 in Davie to withdraw $30,000. Instead of withdrawing cash, police said a detective was there to hand the victim a bag with fake money, which she would hand off to an Uber Courier.
Detectives followed the courier to the Palm Trace Landings Apartments off Davie Road and saw Friday flagging the courier down, police said, taking him into custody. According to the report, the woman later identified him as someone she had handed cash to.
Authorities said Friday admitted to posing as an FDIC representative and was “one of many people who would speak with the victim over the phone pretending to be representatives of different departments within the bank” and admitted to working with an associate named “Loafer.”
“Friday went on to say he has been doing this sort of scamming for six to seven months, but this was the first time he had been caught,” the report states. “Friday explained (that) out of every 10 ‘customers’ they call, nearly five fall for the scam.”
Instead of rolling up wads of cash over the weekend, Friday rolled into jail on three fraud charges.
As of Wednesday, he remained at the Broward Main Jail on a $90,000 bond. Records show he’ll have to prove that any bond he posts comes from a legitimate source before being let out.
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