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Jack Recider

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Darknet Diaries
173: Tarjeteros

Well, for whatever reason, Alberto was in.

Darknet Diaries
173: Tarjeteros

He found someone with stolen cards.

Darknet Diaries
173: Tarjeteros

He was talking to them.

Darknet Diaries
173: Tarjeteros

He didn't know who they were.

Darknet Diaries
173: Tarjeteros

The person had good OPSEC.

Darknet Diaries
173: Tarjeteros

They weren't revealing any personal information about themselves.

Darknet Diaries
173: Tarjeteros

They just had a username.

Darknet Diaries
173: Tarjeteros

I imagine he had to prove his trustworthiness and commitment at first.

Darknet Diaries
173: Tarjeteros

So I'm guessing the first round was just like a small trial, like, here's a card, go pull some money out and send half of it back to us in an envelope, or something like that.

Darknet Diaries
173: Tarjeteros

I mean, that's how it typically goes, you know?

Darknet Diaries
173: Tarjeteros

Well, however it started, after a while, he earned the trust of this person that he was messaging online, and they started talking about doing bigger jobs.

Darknet Diaries
173: Tarjeteros

This guy told Alberto that he's working on getting a debit card

Darknet Diaries
173: Tarjeteros

that was practically unlimited, which crucially didn't have a daily max withdrawal either, which meant Alberto could use this single card hundreds of times or even thousands of times to take as much money out of the ATMs that they would spit at him.

Darknet Diaries
173: Tarjeteros

The problem, though, is even though the card has nearly unlimited funds in it, you could only take out a little bit at a time, whatever the ATM was willing to give you.

Darknet Diaries
173: Tarjeteros

It would have been nice to just withdraw a few million dollars, but ATMs don't work that way.

Darknet Diaries
173: Tarjeteros

And he can't just go into the bank and ask the teller to do it.

Darknet Diaries
173: Tarjeteros

That's just way too risky.

Darknet Diaries
173: Tarjeteros

But this supplier guy said this debit card would only be active on a specific day, which meant there was a window of time when Alberto would be able to pull as much money as he could out of this card.

Darknet Diaries
173: Tarjeteros

Alberto did the math.

Darknet Diaries
173: Tarjeteros

This could be a serious payday.