A New York admitted Thursday to participating in an ATM skimming scheme that stole $428,581 from New Jersey banks using card-reading devices and pinhole cameras, authorities said.

Bogdan Rusu, 39, of Queens, pleaded guilty in federal court in Newark to conspiracy to commit bank fraud. He faces a $1 million fine and up to 30 years in prison when he is sentenced on July 1, said U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito.

Rusu and others defrauded banks and their customers by illegally obtaining customer account numbers and personal identification numbers, authorities said. Eleven others charged in the scheme have pleaded guilty, the U.S. Attorney said.

The criminal complaint states skimming devices were installed onto the card-reader interfaces of bank ATMs and bank vestibule doors. The devices recorded information contained in the magnetic strip of customers’ cards when they swiped at the door or the machine.

The thieves also installed pinhole cameras “concealed within overlay plates designed to blend in with the banks’ existing ATM components,” the complaint states. The cameras recorded bank customers as they entered their pins.

The thieves then created their own ATM cards and passed them around to co-conspirators “who in turn used the counterfeit cards to make unauthorized ATM withdrawals,” the complaint states.

The complaint does not name the banks where the devices were installed.

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