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- Fun with Automatic Tellers
-
- Preface: This is not a particularly easy scam to pull off, as it requires
- either advanced hacking techniques (TRW or banks) or serious balls (trashing a
- private residence or outright breaking & entering), but it can be well worth
- your while to the tune of $500 (five hundred) a day.
-
- Laws that will be broken: Credit Fraud, Wire Fraud, Bank Fraud, Mail Fraud,
- Theft Over $200, Forgery, and possibly a few others in the course of setting
- the scheme up.
-
- The first step is to target your victim. The type person you are looking
- for is rich. Very rich.
-
- Now, don't go trying to hit on J.P. Getty or Johnny Carson or someone who
- carries a high name recognition. This will just get you into trouble as
- everyone notices a famous person's name floating across their desk.
-
- Instead look for someone who owns a chain of hog feed stores or something
- discreet like that. We targeted a gentleman who is quite active in the silver
- market, owning several mines in South Africa and not wanting this to be widely
- known (he had no desire to be picketed.)
-
- Next step, take out a p.o. box in this person's name.
-
- Now comes the fun part, requiring some recon on your part. You need
- to know some fairly serious details about this person's bank dealings.
-
- 1) Find out what bank he deals with mainly. This isn't too difficult
- as a quick run through his office trash will usually let you find
- deposit carbons, withdrawal receipts, or *anything* that has the
- bank name on it.
-
- 2) Find out the account number(s) that he has at the bank. This can
- usually be found on the above-mentioned receipts. If not, you can
- get them in TRW (easier said than done) or you can con them out of
- a hassled bank teller over the phone (Use your imagination. Talk
- slowly and understandingly and give plausible excuses ["I work for
- his car dealership, we need to do a transfer into his account"].)
-
- 2a) [optional] If you can, find out if he has an ATM (Automatic
- Teller) card. You don't need to know numbers or anything, just
- if a card exists. This can also be ascertained over the phone
- if you cajole properly.
-
- 3) Armed with this information, go into action.
-
- a) Obtain some nice (ivory quality) stationary. It doesn't
- have to be engraved or anything, but a $5 or $10 investment
- to put a letterhead with his initials or something on it
- couldn't hurt. But the most important thing is that it
- look good.
-
- b) Type a nice letter to the bank notifying them of your
- address change. Some banks have forms you have to fill out
- for that sort of thing, so you need to check with the bank
- first (anonymously, of course). You will have to have a
- good copy of his signature on hand to sign all forms and
- letters (again, trash his office).
-
- c) Call the bank to verify the new address.
-
- d) IMMEDIATELY upon verifying the change of address, send a
- second letter. If he already has an ATM card, request a
- second card with the business name engraved in it be sent
- for company use. If he doesn't have an ATM card, the
- letter should request one for account number xxxxxx. Ask
- for two cards, one with the wife's name, to add
- authenticity.
-
- e) Go to the bank and ask for a list of all ATM's on the
- bank's network. Often the state has laws requiring *all*
- machines take *all* cards, so you'll probably be in good
- shape.
-
- f) Await the arrival of your new card. The PIN (personal
- identification number) is included when they send out a
- card. After picking up the card, forget that you ever
- even *knew* where the p.o. box was, and make sure you
- didn't leave fingerprints.
-
- g) Begin making the maximum daily withdrawal on the card
- (in most cases $500/day), using a different machine each
- time. Since many of these machines have cameras on them,
- wear a hat & jacket, or a ski mask to be really paranoid.
- To cut the number of trips you have to make in half, be at
- an ATM a few minutes before midnight. Make one $500
- withdrawal right before midnight, and another one right
- after. This cuts down on the number of trips, but police
- or bank officials may spot the pattern and start watching
- machines around midnight. Use your own judgement.
-
-
- Conclusion: Before using the card, make sure that all fingerprints are wiped
- from it. Usually the first hint you will have that they have caught on to
- your scam is that the machine will keep the card. Also, avoid using machines
- in your own town unless it is a big city (Chicago, Milwaukee, Dallas,
- etc...).