I’m telling you, I really should do a blog just on immigrant scams—-there are so many and they are so varied in their creativity, the topic would make for a great blog. This one comes from our neighboring county, Frederick Co. Maryland, although the scammers were nabbed in Oklahoma. I know, off topic, but too good to resist posting.
Two men of Romanian descent [gypsies? here in America?] have been charged with stealing money by tampering with an ATM operated by PNC Bank on Thomas Johnson Drive, according to Frederick police.
The men, Mihai Ittu, 40, and Stefan Iancu, 31, are believed to be part of a theft ring in several states across the country that stole more than $40,000, said Lt. Shawn Martyak, commander of the department’s Criminal Investigation Division. The other states involved are California, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Oklahoma.
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Ittu and Iancu were arrested somewhere around Oklahoma City late last week, Martyak said. Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities contacted Detective William Forder in Frederick.
Here is how they stole peoples’ account information:
He said thieves stole money with a skimming device and camera. The skimmer caught the magnetic strip on the card itself. A small video camera placed around the ATM linked the PIN number to a magnetic strip.
Their immigration status is unknown, but check this out, they will beg to be deported back to Romania where the stolen money will be waiting!
ICE will determine Ittu’s and Iancu’s immigration status.
Although Martyak did not know whether the suspects are in the U.S. illegally, some Romanians are entering the country illegally and wiring stolen money back home, he said.
“If they get caught, they beg to be deported so they go back to Romania and have all their money there,” Martyak said. “It’s not terrorist in the sense of al-Qaida, but it certainly catches your eye when people get hundreds of thousands and in some cases millions of dollars. What are they doing with this money?”
Note to the race baiters at America’s Voice and their media lackeys at Immigration Daily, these are white Europeans local police are detaining and ICE is questioning—not “brown-skinned” illegals.
See our “crimes” category, here, for more immigrant scams.