173: Tarjeteros
Darknet Diaries
Jack Rhysider
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🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In the streets of the Dominican Republic, a new economy thrives in the shadows. It’s built not on tourism or sugar, but on stolen data. They call them tarjeteros. And they are making a lot of money from stolen credit cards. This is a story about one group of tarjeteros who came to the US, and let loose on New York city.
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| 0:00.0 | This story takes place in Yonkers, which is about 30 minutes north of New York City. |
| 0:04.6 | And what I learned about Yonkers is that almost 15% of the people who live there have ancestry that traces back to the Dominican Republic. |
| 0:13.1 | Apparently, a lot of people migrate from the DR to Yonkers, New York, which made me wonder why. |
| 0:19.5 | And I've come to understand that they move from the DR to the |
| 0:22.7 | U.S. for three main reasons. One, because they're a dreamer. Two, because they're a hustler. Or three, |
| 0:29.7 | because they're a struggler. The dreamers come chasing a bright new future where they can get |
| 0:35.1 | good paying, steady work, a better life for their kids, and even |
| 0:38.7 | legal citizenship. The hustlers don't always follow the rules. They're scrappy. They're always on |
| 0:44.2 | the lookout for new opportunities. They're good at negotiating and they're persistent. And the |
| 0:49.2 | struggles, man, they just want to survive. They don't have big plans and they're not trying to find |
| 0:54.0 | shortcuts. They just want to do. They don't have big plans, and they're not trying to find shortcuts. |
| 0:54.8 | They just want to do what it takes to get by, day by day. |
| 1:03.7 | These are true stories from the dark side of the Internet. |
| 1:10.5 | I'm Jack Recyder. |
| 1:13.6 | This is Dark by Mays. |
| 1:33.4 | Security teams are drowning in vulnerabilities. |
| 1:36.1 | 40,000 common vulnerabilities and exposures, aka CVEs, dropped in 2025 alone, with |
| 1:41.9 | attackers being able to exploit new volns in days, not weeks, or backlogs, |
| 1:46.7 | or a ticking time bomb. |
| 1:48.6 | Engineers do not have enough time to manually triage them all. |
| 1:52.1 | But what if they did? |
| 1:53.6 | That's the question Maze was created to answer. |
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