An ex-employee of Philadelphia-based Colonial Penn Life Insurance faces numerous criminal charges for using company computers to steal the information of at least 120 customers.

A federal grand jury charged Lisa Bryant Nelson, 37, of North Philadelphia, with stealing personal and bank account information from customers who also had accounts with Citizens Bank, M&T Bank and Wachovia Bank, according to the Philadelphia Daily News.

Officials involved with the indictment said between Aug. 1, 2007, and Aug. 8, 2008, Nelson passed on the customers’ information to individuals who make fake IDs and counterfeit checks in the names of the bank customers, the report said.

The IDs were for alleged “check runners,” individuals who would pose as customers of the banks, cash the bogus checks made payable to those customers and make fraudulent withdrawals from the customers’ accounts, according to the indictment.

Nelson allegedly worked with a co-conspirator to provide him with the personal information and bank accounts of Colonial Penn customers and the unidentified man would manufacture the fraudulent checks, driver’s licenses and then provide phony documents to others in the scheme.

The indictment said that the check-runners allegedly cashed or attempted to cash counterfeit checks made payable to 32 of 120 Colonial Penn customers, or withdrew or tie to withdraw money from their accounts totaling more than $157,000.

The Daily News said the check-runners hit banks on 40 occasions, including those in Chester County, northeastern Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware and Maryland between September 2007 and August 2008, citing authorities.

Charges against Nelson include conspiracy, bank fraud, and aggravated identity theft.