A.T.M. Robbery Suspects May Have Caused Own Undoing The All County Bus depot in Yonkers. Three of the theft suspects indicted this week in Brooklyn work as bus drivers there. Three worked as bus drivers for special-needs children, two worked at Kmart and another delivered pizza for Domino's. A majority had gone to high school together, and for the most part they seemed like just another group of men who did little to stand out in their working-class neighborhood in Yonkers. But around Christmas, something changed. They flaunted Rolex watches, drove new luxury cars and took off on trips to Miami, where they went on more shopping sprees. The eight young men, according to law enforcement officials, had just pulled off the first of two thefts that would ultimately rank among the biggest in New York City history, successful beyond their wildest hopes. In all, they are accused of stealing $2.8 million. But, the authorities charge, they were just a small piece of a global ring that executed one of the most far-reaching and best-coordinated crimes of the Internet age, looting $45 million from automated teller machines around the globe, using data stolen from prepaid debit card accounts, all in a matter of hours. Despite the sophistication of the crime, the men from Yonkers seemed genuinely awe-struck by their good fortune, according to a law enforcement official involved in the investigation, and their eagerness to flash their profits helped lead to their arrests. Alberto Yusi Lajud-Peña, who is believed to have been the leader of the crew, fled to Dominican Republic and quickly bought a pickup truck as he started spending what apparently was his share of the take. He was killed last month, the victim of a botched robbery devised by his in-laws, according to local law enforcement officials. And the splurges on luxury goods by other members of the crew - many documented in photographs snapped on their cellphones - helped build prosecutors" case against them. After the scope and details of the crime became public on Thursday with the unsealing of an indictment in Brooklyn, bank managers flooded the authorities with worried calls, and anyone with a bank card tucked in a wallet was left to wonder, in a world where millions of dollars can be moved with a keystroke, how safe savings were. But most of the New York crew members seemed to be unaware of the dimensions of their crime, said law enforcement officials and people who have spoken to the young men who have been charged. "They probably couldn't even find the countries where this scheme was created" on a map, said Patrick Brackley, a lawyer representing Elvis Rafael Rodriguez, one of those indicted. Mr. Rodriguez, like the others, entered a not-guilty plea. But Mr. Brackley did not dispute that Mr. Rodriguez was one of the people shown in photographs posing proudly with stacks of stolen cash. "That is the class of criminal you are dealing with," Mr. Brackley said, noting that whatever the skills required of the global operation, the New York participants were at the "very, very low, low end." Investigators around the world are still working to identify members of the network and to determine how it was organized and how its participants were recruited. In court documents made public, investigators point to e-mail correspondence between Mr. Lajud and an organization in Russia known to be involved in money laundering. They also cite a trip three of the men made to Bucharest, the Romanian capital, on Jan. 9 - 19 days after the first $5 million was withdrawn from 4,500 A.T.M."s. The plane tickets, according to court documents, were bought in cash after American Airlines canceled the original reservation, suspecting a stolen credit card had been used to book the flight. "We believe they were carrying a large amount of money with them," according to one of the law enforcement officials, who requested anonymity because of the continuing investigation. The Secret Service was alerted soon after the A.T.M."s were drained in December. The authorities seized bank surveillance video showing withdrawals by "cashing crews" in New York and elsewhere, leaving investigators thousands of hours of footage to review. Ezra Fieser contributed reporting from the Dominican Republic, and Randy Leonard and Christopher Maag from Yonkers. Alain Delaquérière and Jack Styczynski contributed research.