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Fraudster Faces Sentencing in Navy Federal Credit Union ATM Skimming Scheme

Aurel Eremia admits involvement in a fraud ring that compromised more than 4,500 Navy Federal member accounts.

Person pressing in their PIN into an ATM Source: Shutterstock.

Aurel Eremia, who was extradited to the U.S. earlier this year from Romania, is scheduled to be sentenced in March for his involvement in a fraud ring that targeted 10 ATMs in Virginia and compromised 4,579 accounts of members of the $131 billion Navy Federal Credit Union.

The ATM skimming scheme resulted in hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia.

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