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I Team: Dade's Easy Card Becomes Easy Fraud

MIAMI (CBS4) ― (9/14/2010) Installed last year at a cost of $42 million, the Easy Card system is supposed to make Miami Dade transit fast and simple. Regular riders can buy an Easy Card, load it up with cash, and then use it to get around the county. You just swipe your card and go. But for almost a year, the system allowed credit card thieves to buy thousands of dollars in Easy Cards -- and then sell them for cash to unsuspecting passengers.

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