Seems stealing from poor individuals is not as straightforward as simply working a medical insurance or payday mortgage firm — typically you need to truly work for it.
As reported within the LA Instances, Romanian citizen Catalin-Marius Graur acquired himself a decade within the slammer for working an elaborate ATM skimming operation concentrating on welfare recipients. Stealing meals cash from individuals who can barely afford to eat? I assumed that was DOGE’s job.
Graur, wjo was a part of a global Romanian crime ring, managed to swipe over 36,000 stolen card numbers throughout California and New York. When the feds lastly nabbed him at his Airbnb hideout, they discovered $37,000 in money — or as Jeff Bezos calls it, a good annual residing wage for his employees.
This progressive entrepreneur got here to America on a vacationer visa and simply… stayed. He actually captured the spirit of American capitalism— exploiting probably the most weak members of society for revenue.
The excellent news? California lastly found this neat invention known as “microchips” and began including them to EBT playing cards in April. The dangerous information? It took them till 2023 to determine that perhaps, simply perhaps, poor individuals deserve the identical card safety as everybody else.
Beforehand:
• A dependable credit-card skimmer detector: a card that detects a number of learn heads
• First identified US instance of a gas-pump skimmer that makes use of SMS to exfiltrate knowledge
• Crooks set up skimmer on point-of-sale machine in 2 seconds
• ATM skimmer noticed in Vienna
• Extraordinarily refined, 3D printed (?) ATM skimmer
• Nigh-undetectable ATM skimmer
• 3D print-shop receives an order for an ATM skimmer
• ATM skimmer gang invested proceeds in 3D printer to make higher ATM skimmers
