Jack Recider

They called them up.

They were in too.

Elvis knew some other school bus drivers and asked them.

They were game.

They eventually had a group of eight guys all ready to run the ATMs.

There was Alberto and Elvis and their friends, Amir, Jose, Yael, Chung, Juan, and Evan.

A bunch of 20-something-year-old Dominican guys, immigrants.

None of them had any serious criminal records.

But now all of them were hustlers who all thought they were clever and smart and wanted to make some money illegally.

Alberto had the plans.

He explained to everyone, look, when you steal someone's debit card, you don't actually get their debit card.

You get the numbers on it, like there's a 16-digit number, an expiration date, and a CVV code.

With this information, you can encode that onto a blank card.

So they got some blank cards and a writer and started getting ready.

His hookup gave him the debit card details and the date for when it would be enabled.

A single card that can be used unlimited times.

Holding it in their hands, they must have imagined its potential.

ATMs can only dish out so much money before you hit the ATM limit or the ATM runs out of cash.

So they can't just go to one.

They have to hit as many different ones as they can.