BATON ROUGE – East Baton Rouge District Attorney Hillar Moore said deputies and troopers prevented what could’ve been a multi-million dollar theft from an ATM jackpotting scheme that resulted in the arrest of seven Venezuelan nationals.
Moore said while he did not have the exact figures on the potential loss from the jackpotting scheme, he said “the bank is the limit” in terms of what could’ve been stolen. Jackpotting is where criminals hack ATMs and drain the cash.
The seven were arrested after officials saw them manipulate an ATM device at Essential Credit Union in Baton Rouge. The group is based out of Houston and has ties to criminal organizations in Venezuela, Mexico and Spain, arrest documents say. Officials said they were linked to six ATM attacks in the greater Houston area and one in Tennessee…