Chase Bank Viral ‘Glitch’ Is Just Plain Old Bank Fraud, Company Says

A “new” TikTok trend claiming people could get free money from Chase Bank ATMs is nothing more than old-fashioned check fraud, the company says.

The trend involved depositing a check for a high amount and taking out most of the money before the check bounced. On Thursday, a post about the scam on X was viewed over 7.5 million times — and the trend eventually snowballed into lines forming at Chase Banks in New York.

A Chase spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday that the bank knows about the situation and has addressed it.

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