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  • A fast-food worker obtained $200,000 of advance credit by making bogus deposits, the SEC says.
  • The Auntie Anne's employee piled the entire sum into Tesla, Nvidia, GameStop, AMC, and other stocks.
  • His broker caught on and liquidated the holdings a day later, making a roughly $7,000 profit. 

A fast-food worker duped his online broker into giving him $200,000 of advance credit, then plowed the ill-gotten funds into stocks including Tesla, Nvidia, GameStop, and AMC Entertainment, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission.