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In the streets of the Dominican Republic, a new economy thrives in the shadows. It’s built not on tourism or sugar, but on stolen data. They call them tarjeteros. And they are making a lot of money from stolen credit cards. This is a story about one group of tarjeteros who came to the US, and let loose on New York city. Sponsors Support for this show comes from ThreatLocker®.
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A casher is someone who takes a stolen credit card or debit card and goes to an ATM and uses it to withdraw as much money as possible, then go to other ATMs and do it again and again until the stolen card stops working.
“Back home in the Dominican Republic, they have a name for this; tarjeteros, which means ‘card guys’ in Spanish.”
“They eventually had a group of eight guys all ready to run the ATMs. There was Alberto and Elvis and their friends, Amir, Jose, Yael, Chung, Juan, and Evan, a bunch of twenty-something-year-old Dominican guys, immigrants.”
“In the New York crew during the second attack in February, those eight guys only had one account among them, and that account limit had been raised to $40 million.”
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