- Stanley Mark Rifkin
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subject_name = Stanley Mark Rifkin
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date_of_birth = 1946
place_of_birth =United States
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children =Stanley Mark Rifkin (born in 1946) is a convicted criminal in the
United States responsible for stealing $10.2 million dollars through wire transfer via telephone in the autumn of1978 .ecurity Pacific National Bank heist
Working for a company under contract to develop a backup system for the
Security Pacific National Bank wire room, Rifkin learned of the transfer procedures used, and found that bank agents would frequently write down the daily transfer code. One day, he made his way into the transfer room, saw the code, memorized it and walked out. He then made a few phone calls and wired $10.2 million dollars to theIrving Trust Company inNew York for the credit of theWozchod Handels Bank of Zurich inSwitzerland , where he'd already set up an account.Having previously set up a diamond transaction, he picked up 43,200 carats in
diamonds from a Russian agency, which he had purchased for USD 8.1 million. He flew back into theUnited States and began selling the diamonds, but a business associate that he was using tipped him off to theFBI . He was captured shortly after, just before midnight onNovember 5 .References
* "The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security", by Kevin Mitnick (2002, Hardback ISBN 0-471-23712-4, Paperback ISBN 0-7645-4280-X)
External links
* [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,948323-1,00.html The Ultimate Heist] , last accessed
December 31 ,2007
* [http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/diamond/chap20.htm]
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