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Migrant moped gang hired hacker to breach banking apps as NYPD reveals new details about ‘sophisticated’ high-tech crime ring
nypost.com ^ | February 6, 2024 | Tina Moore and Steve Janoski

Posted on 02/07/2024 6:31:55 AM PST by lowbridge

A group of moped-riding migrants terrorizing New Yorkers – including one Uber Eats driver – used a hacker to breach bank accounts and make purchases at stores like Home Depot, cops revealed as they shared new details on the “sophisticated” high-tech crime ring.

The crew — and others like it — include people from several nations, including Venezuela, Ecuador, Honduras and Mexico, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told reporters.

“There’s not a Venezuelan shelter, there’s not a Mexican shelter,” he said. “They’re all brought in together, along with other groups as well.”

But the Venezuelan-led gangs — including the suspected crooks busted yesterday, who were directed by a Venezuelan migrant named Victor Parra, 30, of the Bronx — tend to be more organized, Kenny said.

“Like you saw with yesterday’s [robbery ring bust] — where the proceeds are being shipped to Miami, Houston and eventually Colombia — they’re a little more sophisticated in that they’re hacking into the phones, stealing people’s banking records,” Kenny said.

“They’re getting into their Venmo, they’re getting into their Zelle accounts and they’re using that money to make purchases,” he continued. “They’ll clear out the accounts, and then they make purchases … at Home Depot, or [they make] money transfers to other accounts, or cash.”

Once they’ve exhausted the accounts, they ship the phone overseas to be sold, he added.

One alleged member of the moped gang, 19-year-old Cleyber Andrade, was arraigned Tuesday in Manhattan criminal court and held on $10,000 bail after he was connected by cops with the wider ring that has been fingered for 62 different instances of grand larceny across the Big Apple since November.

That includes a shocking, caught-on-video heist in which a 62-year-old woman was brutally dragged down a Brooklyn street just three days after Christmas

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: apps; crime; illegalimmigration; immigration; newyork; nyc; theft; venezuela

1 posted on 02/07/2024 6:31:55 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

It’s okay, it’s a Catholic gang…


2 posted on 02/07/2024 6:32:48 AM PST by EEGator
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To: lowbridge

Where are the Bandidos when you need them?


3 posted on 02/07/2024 6:37:57 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: unixfox; SaveFerris
Where are the Bandidos when you need them?

So give you ID card to the border guard
Your alias says you got John Luke Picard
Of the United Federation of Planets
'Cause they won't speak English any ways

4 posted on 02/07/2024 6:40:35 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: lowbridge

If al of these victims had used deadly force against their attackers, the crime would stop.


5 posted on 02/07/2024 6:43:58 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: dfwgator

Love the guitar work by Brian Blush on that song


6 posted on 02/07/2024 6:44:09 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: lowbridge
Migrant moped gang hired hacker to breach banking apps as NYPD reveals new details about ‘sophisticated’ high-tech crime ring


7 posted on 02/07/2024 7:02:57 AM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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Mug shot of migrant gang member, 19-year-old Cleyber Andrade, arraigned in Manhattan criminal court and held on $10,000 bail.

Andrade was connected by astute cops as a member of a violent migrant ring, here illegally, that has been fingered for 62 separate instances of grand larceny on NYC streets since November, sometimes using mopeds.

The migrant gangs' violent crimes include a shocking, caught-on-video heist in which a 62-year-old NYC woman was brutally dragged down a Brooklyn street just three days after Christmas with a moped .........after having violently stolen her phone and handbag.

Andrade is believed to be connected to a gang of some 14 savage border jumpers from Venezuela, and other Latin America countries, who beatup NYPD cops in Times Square and were let go scot-free by DA Alvin Bragg.

8 posted on 02/07/2024 7:19:46 AM PST by Liz (Matthew 11.28-30: Come to me, all you who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you strength.)
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To: lowbridge

bttt


9 posted on 02/07/2024 7:21:10 AM PST by Pajamajan (Pray for our nation. Never be a slave in a new Socialist America.)
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To: lowbridge

Used a hacker to breach bank accounts

Why do banks have data available on line in the first place kickbacks?.


10 posted on 02/07/2024 7:24:05 AM PST by Vaduz
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The group of moped-riding migrants terrorizing New Yorkers – include one driver from Uber Eats, (which is apparently held culpable under NY laws).

The thieving migrant gang used a hacker to breach bank accounts of innocent Americans to make purchases at stores like Home Depot.

Astute NYC cops are revealing new details on the “sophisticated” high-tech migrant crime ring, here illegally, given asylum under NY’s “sanctuary city designation,” and given tax dollars to spend, health, care food and shelter all paid for by taxpayers

The organized crime crew — and others like it — include border jumpers welcomed, they say, by Joe Biden, emanate from several nations, including Venezuela, Ecuador, Honduras and Mexico, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told reporters.


11 posted on 02/07/2024 7:31:33 AM PST by Liz (Matthew 11.28-30: Come to me, all you who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you strength.)
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Welcome to Bidenville.

On the left: an illegal alien gesturing obscenely;part of a violent mob on tape viciously attacking a NYPD officer; got off scott free, released without bail.

On the right is a father of 11, convicted in federal court
of praying at an abortion mill facing 11 years in jail.

12 posted on 02/07/2024 7:52:44 AM PST by Liz (Matthew 11.28-30: Come to me, all you who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you strength.)
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To: lowbridge

See, just hard working family men shopping Home Depot to give their kids toys like garage door openers, pipes and nails to play with.


13 posted on 02/07/2024 9:26:27 AM PST by bgill
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To: Liz
Liz :" Mug shot of migrant gang member, 19-year-old Cleyber Andrade,
arraigned in Manhattan criminal court and held on $10,000 bail."

Bring on the RICO laws for criminals who conspire with others.
Doesn't that make the offense a Federal criminal offense ?

14 posted on 02/07/2024 9:36:10 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

The RICO statute expressly states that it is unlawful for any person
to conspire to violate any of the subsections of 18 U.S.C.A. § 1962.

The government need not prove
<><>that the defendant agreed with every other conspirator,
<><>knew all of the other conspirators,
<><>or had full knowledge of all the details of the conspiracy.


15 posted on 02/07/2024 9:41:41 AM PST by Liz (Matthew 11.28-30: Come to me, all you who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you strength.)
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