Stakeouts, Lucky Breaks Snare Six More in Citibank ATM Heist

[Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>]

Good new news related to Citibank ATM network case:

"Citibank officials monitoring their network for fraud on Thursday, May 8, noticed suspicious ATM transactions at 8:30 
p.m.,
coming through the five cash machines in the vestibule of a Citibank branch at 65th Street and Madison Avenue in New 
York City's Upper East Side.

As luck would have it, a bank employee -- probably a corporate security official -- was already staking out the branch 
from across the street."
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and later:

"But the arrests didn't stop the fraud, which sprang from perhaps the most serious computer intrusion into a bank 
system to date.
The FBI has recently made at least six more arrests in New York -- bringing the total to 10 -- thanks to information 
from arrested scam suspects, a lucky traffic stop,
and an undercover operation that at one point had Eastern European hackers chasing a female FBI agent through the 
streets of New York, trying to mug her for ATM-card-programming gear."
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More at
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/06/fbi-arrests-six.html

Juha-Matti
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