No easy money to be had in credit-card fraud scheme

A Stone Mountain man asked the teller of a Norcross bank for $4,000 on his Chase Visa card.

The teller, knowing an identify-theft ring had been using Chase Visas, quickly found the card was fraudulent and called police.

A Gwinnett officer found the 34-year-old suspect outside the bank talking on his cellphone. His 1992 Mercury Grand Marquis was backed into a parking space for a quick getaway. The man tried to appease the officer by explaining he had been out of work for 18 months and that a friend had recruited him into the credit-card ring to make some easy money.

The officer asked for the friend's name.

The name was an alias — or somebody else's.

Officers think they got the suspect's correct name by running his tag.

They shouldn't jump to conclusions, however, because the tag office listed his surname as "Hood."

Whoever he is, he was arrested.