{"id":742,"date":"2025-10-14T05:28:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T05:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/742\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T05:28:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T05:28:22","slug":"crooks-tricked-man-84-out-of-bank-card-at-queens-atm-racked-up-6-8k-in-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/742\/","title":{"rendered":"Crooks tricked man, 84, out of bank card at Queens ATM, racked up $6.8K in charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cops are looking for three men who tricked an 84-year-old man out of his Chase bank card in Queens and later used it to rack up thousands of dollars in charges.<\/p>\n<p>The elderly man was in a Chase branch near Woodside Ave. and 60th St. in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2024\/11\/05\/nyc-election-day-glitches-machines-turnout\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sunnyside Gardens<\/a> on June 26 around 10 a.m. when one of the suspects tapped the victim on his shoulder to distract him. Meanwhile, an accomplice quickly switched the victim\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/01\/09\/midnight-smashers-bodega-burglars-steal-49-atms-5k-reward-offered\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bank card at the ATM<\/a> with another card, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The two robbers then left the bank, giving the victim\u2019s card to another man who was waiting outside the place.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward, the victim noticed unauthorized transactions on his card totaling $6,800, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The tricky trio have yet to be caught. One was wearing a dark-colored, long-sleeve shirt with glasses. Another sported a black long-sleeve shirt and a black hat. The third wore a white long-sleeve shirt, blue shorts, white sneakers and a white hat.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime Stoppers<\/a> Hotline at (800) 577-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: October 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cops are looking for three men who tricked an 84-year-old man out of his Chase bank card in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,122,124,123,265],"class_list":["post-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}