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[Vince Porter] Electronic recovery and access to data
ERAD allows us to read our card information

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on match strips and also tell us
the value of might be on a

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card. [William Deso] ERAD is a system that was
designed to allow law enforcement

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personnel to swipe prepaid cards to see if they
were associated with criminal activities.

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[Vince] I don't have to drive around with a large bag full of

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tens of thousands of dollars in my car. I can just have a
couple of gift cards sitting in my

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wallet and no one will ever think any different of it.
[Alan Walker] We had a situation from the city of

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Scottsdale involving 6,000 cards, which were obviously
clone cards or bogus cards.

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As we began to assist in the investigation, we realized

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that going through each card one at a time,
contacting the banks individually doesn't

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work. It took nine months to complete that. We began to

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look for aa better method, a better way.
What we found was ERAD.

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[Vince] A lot of times the patrol officers wind up making
a stop for maybe some other kind of incident

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and we will end up finding in their possession
multiple cards and in these cards they'll find

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them with different names embossed on the front of them

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or they have no names at all. [Alan] Using the portable
device from ERAD attached to the smart

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phone. He runs the card through the device.

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The device sends a signal to ERAD. ERAD will identify the

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card, the information and so forth and email
it back to him instantaneously.

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[Vince] We are trying to verify if the information that comes
up on the mag stripe is the same information that is on

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the card. If we run a card and the card comes back

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not to match, we're able to freeze those assets that's
on those cards using ERAD

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itself. [William] The ERAD system also includes a

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USB enabled scanner that could be connected to a desktop

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computer. So if you have large quantities of cards to scan

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you can just do it at your desktop. [Vince] I just
recently had this past year, we had 19

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thousand card numbers. That number was
just way too much for us to physically

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process, but with ERAD we were able to
run all other numbers that we had

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put them into ERAD and ERAD was able to spit them all
out to show all the

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banks who were victimized by these people. [Reid Pixler]
The detective, the case agent that's investigating

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the case, they have available to them a downloaded image

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of all the data regarding the card numbers.
All of the identifying

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information that's necessary so it is printed out and

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becomes an exhibit to the warrant, to the affidavit,

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and then to the return. It speeds our ability to
get to the court very quickly.

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[Alan] For every seizure we've had, we have seen 20

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separate unrelated criminal cases investigated,
instigated or created

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because of the card identifying identity theft,
drug trafficking, money

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laundering, child prostitution, sex trafficking,

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human trafficking. [William] The ERAD system is actually a

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multi-agency developmental effort. DHS S&T

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invited our law enforcement partners, Immigration and

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Customs Enforcement, the U.S. Secret
Service, the Border Patrol.

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We also worked with Justice Department. It's being used by

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state and local law personnel in 48 out of 50 states.

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It's being used by Federal law enforcement agency.
It is also being used by international agencies.

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So it's been a very successful project for

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S&T, DHS S&T.

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