CHICAGO ―(ENEWSPF)–May 27, 2015. Two men were indicted on April 29, 2015, by a federal grand jury in an indictment unsealed today for allegedly intending to defraud ATMs in and around Chicago by altering the settings of the ATMs so that the actual amounts disbursed far exceeded the withdrawal requests as well as the balance of the accounts from which the withdrawal requests were made. The funds that were fraudulently obtained totaled approximately $185,000. The defendants, Trent Ratliff and Fredrick Lee, were charged in a 10-count indictment. Both defendants were charged with one count of conspiracy to commit computer access fraud as well as separate counts of computer access fraud, corresponding to specific ATM withdrawals.
