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Jack Recider

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Darknet Diaries
173: Tarjeteros

He looked around, reading what people were into, and he started to discover how some people make money online.

Darknet Diaries
173: Tarjeteros

And there was an ad he spotted, which was interesting.

Darknet Diaries
173: Tarjeteros

Here was the pitch.

Darknet Diaries
173: Tarjeteros

Looking for reliable people for ATM runs.

Darknet Diaries
173: Tarjeteros

No experience required.

Darknet Diaries
173: Tarjeteros

Clean work, fast pay must be trustworthy and reliable.

Darknet Diaries
173: Tarjeteros

Alberto was interested, and he had just stumbled into the world of cashers.

Darknet Diaries
173: Tarjeteros

A cashier is someone who takes a stolen credit card or debit card and goes to an ATM and uses it to withdraw as much money as possible, then go to other ATMs and do it again and again until the stolen card stops working.

Darknet Diaries
173: Tarjeteros

See, thieves are stealing people's credit cards all the time.

Darknet Diaries
173: Tarjeteros

There's lots of ways to do it.

Darknet Diaries
173: Tarjeteros

Obviously, you could just steal someone's wallet or purse and then use their credit card before they report it stolen.

Darknet Diaries
173: Tarjeteros

But the way the world works today is we're doing a lot of our purchases online using credit cards.

Darknet Diaries
173: Tarjeteros

If someone could somehow intercept those transactions and see the credit card details being used in the purchase, then you could just take those numbers and go reuse that yourself somewhere.

Darknet Diaries
173: Tarjeteros

Or it's possible to hit the mother load and hack into a database of credit cards and steal thousands at once.

Darknet Diaries
173: Tarjeteros

See, credit cards are essentially digital money.

Darknet Diaries
173: Tarjeteros

So if you can get your hands on the credit card data, it's just as good as if you had a physical card in your possession.

Darknet Diaries
173: Tarjeteros

The card itself is not what's valuable.

Darknet Diaries
173: Tarjeteros

It's the information on the card that's worth money to the card owner or to thieves.

Darknet Diaries
173: Tarjeteros

And once thieves get credit card details, they'll try to drain as much money from it as possible before the bank marks it stolen or turns it off and they can't take any more out.

Darknet Diaries
173: Tarjeteros

But it's tricky since you can't just transfer money from the credit card into your own bank account.