A grand jury working the U.S. District Court for theSouthern District of New York has indicted four Romanians for analleged scheme to steal money to steal money from major banksthrough ATM skimming.
|The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York chargedthat Mihail Draghici, Ionel Dedulescu, Didi Theodor Ciulei andLaurentiu Mugurel Manta replaced legitimate PIN pads on ATMs in NewYork, South Florida and Chicago and used them to collect cardinformation and PIN numbers.
|The group was also charged with putting similar compromised PINpads on the doors to the entrances of ATM vestibules where theyperformed the same function. The group was then charged with usingthe stolen information to make fake debit cards that they used tosteal money from card holder accounts.
|According to the indictment, the four allegedly stole more than$1.5 million from CitiBank and J.P. Morgan Chase.
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