Fraud Suspect Eats USB Drive

Filed in archive Humor on March 20, 2010

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A fraud suspect recently swallowed a USB hard drive while awaiting questioning by the U.S. Secret Service.

"Florin Necula, from New York, ate a Kingston flash drive thought to contain mag strip dumps from credit cards shortly after his arrest outside a bank in Queens on 21 January," writes The Register's John Leyden. "He gobbled the USB drive while awaiting processing and questioning at a Secret Service office in Brooklyn."

"Necula was arrested outside a Queens bank for allegedly installing card-readers over A.T.M. slots to steal data (and $35,000)," writes Gothamist's John Del Signore.

"Investigators were not deterred by the gut-wrenching turn of events," writes Crimesider's Neil Katz. "They sent Necula to New York Downtown Hospital... where doctors pulled the offending flash drive from his intestines."

"Not only is Necula still in hot water for his alleged ATM scam, but he now faces obstruction of justice charges, had to undergo surgery, and will receive 5 minutes of fame as one of the dumbest crooks of the decade," writes HotHardware's Paul Lilly.

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