A South Florida man was arrested earlier this month after he allegedly swindled an Alabama resident out of more than $20,000 in cash through a bank fraud scheme, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said.

Omari Burke, 22, of Pompano Beach, is facing charges of organized fraud, money laundering, unlawful use of a two-way communications device, defrauding a financial institution and grand theft of a person 65 years or older, court records show.

In August, a 74-year-old man submitted a complaint to the FBI that he fell for a phone scam where someone purporting to be a Wells Fargo employee from the fraud department told him someone was trying to withdraw $20,000 from his bank account, according to a probable cause affidavit.

A second person involved in the scam, whose name is redacted in the affida

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