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German Police Mock 'Not Very Clever' ATM Robbers (bleepingcomputer.com)
An anonymous reader quotes Bleeping Computer:
German police mocked a group of bungling crooks that tried to rob an ATM, but instead of malware they chose explosives, which they unwittingly placed near a device that issued bank statements, and not the actual money-dispensing ATM... The crooks placed small explosive charges next to a machine they thought to be an ATM, in the hopes of breaking its outer casing and getting access to the money vault inside... After being called in to investigate the loud blast that woke up the bank's neighbors German police discovered a partially destroyed bank statement printing machine... No money was stolen in the failed robbery, police reported.
In a statement on the Berlin police department's official web site, they described the ATM thieves as "not very clever."
In a statement on the Berlin police department's official web site, they described the ATM thieves as "not very clever."
And I mock the German police if people are running around with explosives. Way to miss the point.
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If you cannot a bank statement printer from an ATM you are not very clever. They only coroborrate the truth.
If the police want to catch the idiots who have explosives, they better hurry. Otherwise, they may need a dustpan.
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If the criminals have not been caught - which appears to be the case - the police should not be mocking their intelligence. Otherwise the police are basically saying "these criminals are dumb, but we are unable to catch them - so we're even dumber". Of course if that's the case I don't expect those police to be aware of it.
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bruteforcing the old fashion way lol.
guess they dont get extra credit for doing their homework. the police will probably find blownup body parts but no other casualties other than these guy's and/or gal's
If they were thinking criminals, they'd work for the banks and rob people.
Plot Twist: They used this to draw attention, and then did their dirty work somewhere else.
My bank charges a fee for a printed statement to be sent to me. Maybe these guys were not so dumb after all.
Here we had a strike of the company that was supposed to re-fill ATM's. After about a week most ATM's where empty. Despite this being national news for days, our clever robbers stole an empty ATM....
In Belgium they use too much explosives, and got stuck under the collapsed roof (with no damage to the ATM).
They just don't read German yet
Is it the same German police who said last month "How could we know that Jabr al-Bakr (who was planning a suicide bombing) was suicidal?".
Fun fact: It was a fake article in Postillon (a german The Onion, http://www.der-postillon.com/2...), but the real police said exactly the same thing in Spiegel (http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/jaber-albakr-terrorverdaechtiger-sprach-nur-einmal-einen-dolmetscher-a-1116457.html) afer the suicide bomber commited suicide in his cell .
PS: If you find a MP5 laying around in Germany, please be kind and send it back to the police (http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/leipzig-polizist-muss-verlorene-waffe-wohl-bezahlen-a-1116633.html) Thanks in advance!
We have bank *bombings* using stolen TNT (the _large_ kind, used by miners to break down large rocks) at least once a month, usually more. They *do* get away with the money, and trash the place really badly (as in anything short of the concrete gets destroyed).
Often, you have to actually bring in the civilian engineers to ensure the building's structure was not affected... and remember, Brazilians do not use wood at all, everything here is concrete, steel, mortar and brick.
And Brazilian ATMs are *TOUGH*, likely with three to five times the armor I've seen used on american and german ATMs while travelling. Any idiot that comes down here to learn how to crack ATMs open in Brazil is likely going to bring down the entire building in europe.
This crime is very common here in Brazil, and almost always they're successfull, they nearly destroy the entire bank agency when exploding the ATM.
They didn't even manage to blow themselves up, so they met the minimum standard for cleverness.
Come on, we've all been there. It's the early hours of the morning, you need to get some printing done and you run out of cyan ink somehow even though you're just printing black and white stuff. And the stupid bloody thing won't work at all without some ink in all colour cartridges. Thanks HP.