173: Tarjeteros

173: Tarjeteros

From Darknet Diaries by Jack Rhysider

April 21, 2026 · 38 min · Season 1 · Episode 173

About this episode

This episode explores the underground economy of credit card fraud in the Dominican Republic and its expansion into New York City.

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. Sponsors Support for this show comes from ThreatLocker® . ThreatLocker® is a Zero Trust Endpoint Protection Platform that strengthens your infrastructure from the ground up. With ThreatLocker® Allowlisting and Ringfencing™, you gain a more secure approach to blocking exploits of known and unknown vulnerabilities. ThreatLocker® provides Zero Trust control at the kernel level that enables you to allow everything you need and block everything else, including ransomware! Learn more at www.threatlocker.com . This show is sponsored by Maze . Maze uses AI agents to triage and remediate cloud vulnerabilities by figuring out what’s actually exploitable, not just what’s theoretically risky. They remove the noise, prioritize vulns that matter, and manage remediation, so your team stops wasting time on meaningless vulns. Visit MazeHQ.com/darknet for more information. Support…

People in this episode

Host: Jack Rhysider

Topics covered

  • credit card fraud
  • cybercrime
  • Dominican Republic
  • tarjeteros
  • data theft
  • economy

Keywords

  • tarjeteros
  • stolen data
  • credit cards
  • cybercrime
  • Dominican Republic
  • New York
  • economy
  • fraud

Sponsors

ThreatLocker, Maze, Privacy.com

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Dominican Republic, New York city

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