Jamie Jakia Cofer, a/k/a “Anna Bell,” 24, of Lake Worth, Florida, was charged in a twenty-two count indictment with bank fraud, aggravated identity theft, and fraudulent use of unauthorized access devices after using the social security numbers, dates of birth, and other identity and financial information of victims to steal money from their bank accounts, deposit unauthorized checks, make unauthorized credit card purchases, and engage in other fraudulent transactions. During the alleged crimes, Cofer worked as a home health aide. Cofer’s victims included elderly clients of Cofer’s, whose homes she entered with the supposed purpose of helping them with their home health needs.
According to allegations contained in the indictment and previously filed criminal complaint, for over a year starting in January 2019, Cofer worked as a home health aide servicing senior citizens in the South Florida community. During that time, Cofer gained access to her elderly clients’ social security numbers, dates of birth, bank accounts, credit cards, and other information. Without the knowledge or consent of these elderly clients, Cofer allegedly used the information to steal money from bank accounts, open unauthorized credit card accounts, deposit unauthorized checks, make herself an authorized user on credit accounts, make unauthorized purchases of items such as a mannequin head and wig stand, pay her mobile phone, insurance, and other bills, and send money to a prison inmate, among other things. Cofer allegedly used one elderly client’s bank account information to set up auto pay on one of Cofer’s utility accounts. She allegedly used her own phone number and email to set up paperless account notifications to prevent this victim from receiving alerts.
