Paula Reed Ward reports:
Two Romanian nationals are in federal custody for allegedly using card skimmers to steal the account numbers from PNC Bank card users and then using those accounts to spend some $200,000.
Alexandra Razvan Serb and Mihai Popa are charged with bank fraud, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft.
The Western Pennsylvania Financial Crimes Task Force got information from PNC Bank that in January, investigators learned that more than $200,000 in fraudulent credit and debit card purchases had been made in New York City and Washington, D.C. The investigators were able to trace the compromised accounts to ATMs in Pittsburgh, according to a criminal complaint filed in the case.
Read more in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.