A man, who police believe is in the U.S. illegally, is facing federal charges for allegedly stealing data through credit card skimmers around the Northeast.
Romario Serban, as seen on surveillance video at a Walmart
store in Seabrook, according to investigators.
According to court documents, Romario Serban placed the skimmers at Walmart stores in New Hampshire, New York, Maine and Massachusetts last July.
Investigators said surveillance images show Serban at the Walmart in Seabrook.
Investigators said Serban retrieved data from more than 29,000 EBT and credit cards by using a key fob to activate a switch in the skimmer, which allowed the information to be collected through Bluetooth technology.
With all of the different ways criminals have come up with to skim data from card readers over the last 35 years or so, you'd think that the card companies and the companies that supply the readers would have come up with a method to make it impossible to skim card data by now. But NNNOOOOOO.
ReplyDeleteNemo
P.S. No link to the news article?
Nope, it's easier to just pass the costs along to the chumps (merchants and credit card holders).
DeleteWho then pass it on to us
DeleteIt's called cash.
DeleteDon't let it be replaced.
I think scammers need to be run through a gauntlet of those they scammed. To insure justice, every member of the gauntlet should have an axe handle with a large nail through the end.
ReplyDeleteJess has the solution, I say we run with it....
DeleteYank toe nails the soft hangin
DeleteI'd just geld him, and be done with it, save taxpayers money, nor have to worry about deportation protests.
ReplyDeleteTourniquet to the neck and tighten slowly. Even gelded he can still go out and do crime.
DeleteLet the cruel and unusual punishments fit the cruel and unusual crimes. Asset confiscation and imprisonment is fair punishment for financial crimes.
ReplyDeleteSo he took their money. Now, they can't afford to eat or pay the electric bill.
DeleteLet the punishment fit the crime you say?
Fair enough... stuff him in a dark box and starve him to death.
I'm good with that.
Takes fingers to build devices like these, & fingers to manipulate them; cigar cutters can also take fingers.
ReplyDeleteCC
Seizure and forfeiture of all assets.
ReplyDeleteRemoval of tongue and both hands.
President Elect B Woodman
The "Bluetooth" technology is was in the collection of the 'skimmed' data, the actual skimming I'd think was a RFID scanner placed by the thief. If the cards didn't have the RFID built in then the data couldn't be so easily stolen.
ReplyDeleteBut have you tried to get a Credit Card without the "Contactless" feature on it? Know that it is possible for the card issuer to turn off the contactless feature on the card, just a setting in software. But they will not do it.
My last two cards I had to perform 'surgery' on the card to cut the trace to the RFID antenna. On the Chase card a slit one MM from the left edge of the chip does it.
Five years in prison as Big, and I mean BIG, Bubba's cellie. Yep only five years. Then deport him with a warning that if he ever comes back, he will vanish...well except for the shit the wolves drop after devouring his carcass. No trial, no ass kissing, simply vanish.
ReplyDeleteAnother illegal parasite, here to contribute to our “diversity”.
ReplyDelete