4 Busted in LIRR Skimming Scam
By Rashed Mian on November 1, 2013
Four Romanian nationals, including a married couple, were arrested this week in an alleged Long Island Rail Road ticket machine skimming scheme that resulted in thousands of debit and credit card information thefts and tens of thousands of dollars in losses from dozens of bank accounts, authorities said Friday.
Metropolitan Transit Authority Police arrested the husband and wife duo, 38-year-old Valer Zaharia and 27-year-old Teodora Zaharia, at the LIRR’s Sea Cliff station Monday night. Two others, 45-year-old Niculae Petre and 37-year-old Dorin Husa, were arrested in Elmhurst, Queens on Tuesday.
The investigation, which began two weeks ago after a LIRR customer found a plastic device on a ticket vending machine in Bayside and alerted workers there, is still continuing as authorities pour through thousands of account numbers to “see to what extent they were used to steal money from people’s accounts and financial institutions,” Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice said.
“Ticket vending machines are a source of convenience for thousands of people who take the railroad every single day,” Rice added. “Unfortunately, those machines have become a source of convenience for a crew of thieves who have used modern computer technology to steal the card information for thousands of customers.”
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