Just days before Christmas, a Florida couple is arrested for running a two-month vishing scam, racking up thousands of fraudulent credit card charges on the accounts of more than a dozen victims up and down the East Coast.

The Franklin Township Police Department announced the December 18th arrest earlier this week after catching the duo near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in a rented car with Florida plates. Inside the vehicle, cops found “a large sum of US currency, 68 gift cards, 11 cell phones, and one laptop.”

The suspects, 24-year-old Olivia Jean Baptiste of West Park, and 29-year-old Michael Rampal of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, are accused of calling victims by phone and pretending to be the security team members of their local bank...