{"id":105055,"date":"2018-02-13T10:27:54","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T10:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=105055"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:40:11","slug":"jackpotting-bank-robbery-with-none-of-the-violence-but-most-of-prison-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/jackpotting-bank-robbery-with-none-of-the-violence-but-most-of-prison-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackpotting: bank robbery with none of the violence (but most of the prison time)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-97280\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2018\/02\/TA.EN_.W7.news4_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2018\/02\/TA.EN_.W7.news4_.jpg 540w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2018\/02\/TA.EN_.W7.news4_-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2018\/02\/TA.EN_.W7.news4_-304x170.jpg 304w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you\u2019re thinking of robbing a bank but don\u2019t fancy the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZL9fnVtz_lc\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">gun-toting mayhem<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><b>jackpotting<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> might be for you. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Get a smart friend <\/span><b>to hack into the bank\u2019s ATM network<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, then hang around and wait for the machine to <\/span><b>spit out all its bills<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. You don\u2019t even have to enter the bank. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sounds good, right? That\u2019s what <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-ct\/pr\/two-men-charged-atm-jackpotting-scheme\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">two guys in Massachusetts<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> thought when they allegedly tried it at the end of January. They are accused of <\/span><b>hitting several ATMs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and raking in <\/span><b>ten grand<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If found guilty, they\u2019ll be charged with fraud, not robbery. But that still carries a <\/span><b>maximum of 30 years<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in prison. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maybe it\u2019s best to <\/span><b>stick to the day job<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> after all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re thinking of robbing a bank but don\u2019t fancy the gun-toting mayhem, jackpotting might be for you. Get a smart friend to hack into the bank\u2019s ATM network, then hang around and wait for the machine to spit out all its bills. You don\u2019t even have to enter the bank. Sounds good, right? That\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/jackpotting-bank-robbery-with-none-of-the-violence-but-most-of-prison-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jackpotting: bank robbery with none of the violence (but most of the prison time)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2040,"featured_media":105279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[1034],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-105055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-money"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328300,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105055\/revisions\/328300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105055"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=105055"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=105055"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=105055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}