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Bulgarian held on $1 million bail in US over ATM scam
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A Bulgarian national, known only as I.H, (28), is being held on $1 million cash bail after being charged in Quincy District Court with scamming bank customers at a Quincy Citizens Bank, Boston Herald said on January 29 2010.
The Bulgarian native, now a Canadian citizen living in Thornhill, Ontario, was involved in a scheme, authorities say, that covered a huge swathe of the state and affected untold unsuspecting people - including one Quincy cop, Boston Herald said.
This is just unravelling now," Boston Herald quoted Norfolk District Attorney William Keating as saying. "I suspect there’ll be many victims and hundreds of thousands (stolen), at a minimum, maybe seven figures, before it’s done."
According to Keating, the Bulgarian national snatched ATM card numbers by inserting a "skimmer" device in the slot where customers insert their card. He also installed miniature cameras at ATMs that recorded customers punching in their PINs.
Using that information, the Bulgarian national and at least two at-large accomplices allegedly created phony ATM cards to access the accounts of those concerned, Keating said.
The Bulgarian national was captured on January 27 2010 night with $1500 cash in his wallet shortly after leaving a Citizens Bank ATM on Hancock Street, where he illegally accessed customer accounts, Quincy police Capt. John Dougan said.
The Bulgarian native, now a Canadian citizen living in Thornhill, Ontario, was involved in a scheme, authorities say, that covered a huge swathe of the state and affected untold unsuspecting people - including one Quincy cop, Boston Herald said.
This is just unravelling now," Boston Herald quoted Norfolk District Attorney William Keating as saying. "I suspect there’ll be many victims and hundreds of thousands (stolen), at a minimum, maybe seven figures, before it’s done."
According to Keating, the Bulgarian national snatched ATM card numbers by inserting a "skimmer" device in the slot where customers insert their card. He also installed miniature cameras at ATMs that recorded customers punching in their PINs.
Using that information, the Bulgarian national and at least two at-large accomplices allegedly created phony ATM cards to access the accounts of those concerned, Keating said.
The Bulgarian national was captured on January 27 2010 night with $1500 cash in his wallet shortly after leaving a Citizens Bank ATM on Hancock Street, where he illegally accessed customer accounts, Quincy police Capt. John Dougan said.
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$1 million cash ... wow like
......and do the American schools teach anything other than how to shoot people and to be proud of it......
they teach a lot more things than they do in the States......and it seems to me that american schools teach you only how to shoot people and be proud of it.
KW, did the school you went to teach you to be ignorant?
K.W. your comment is utterly offensive. Take it down yourself, please, or apologize. Moderator, why is "for KW" removed, but KW is still up? Or maybe it coincides with the editor's point of view?!!!
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