WSJ: The Romanians Steal the Social Aid of Americans Taking Advantage of Old Cards, Money Gets Into Real Estate and Gambling
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Crime networks organized with links in Romania are accused by the US authorities of exploiting the vulnerabilities of EBT cards to steal funds for people with low income in the United States. An investigation published by The Wall Street Journal shows that criminals would have used skimmer-like devices to copy the card data and PIN codes of beneficiaries of social assistance programs.
On a cold March day, a Romanian citizen who has already been expelled twice from the US entered a 7-Eleven store in Toledo, Ohio, and secretly mounted a device called "skimmer" at a credit card terminal, the prosecutors say...
The US authorities claim that criminal groups involving Romanian citizens have developed complex operations for the theft of SNAP benefits from EBT cards. The skimmers installed on payment terminals allow the copying of PIN data and codes, and the money illegally obtained would have been transformed into cryptocurrencies and invested including in Romania. The cases investigated led the US authorities to accelerate the transition to chip cards an…
Thieves use magnetic tapes, technology that has become obsolete, social benefits cards to hijack hundreds of millions of dollars of public money
A network of Romanian criminals has stolen hundreds of millions of dollars from the United States budget. American authorities have discovered that the group clones outdated social cards, leaving millions of poor American families without food aid. American prosecutors claim that in March of this year a Romanian citizen entered a 7-Eleven store [...]
Fraud with SN cards The investigators suspect networks with Romanian skimming links in the US, including in a case investigated in Toledo, Ohio, in March.
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