San Luis Obispo Police arrested three people who allegedly stole $58,000 from at least 100 people by strategically placing small cameras and card readers at several county banks. For several months, police have been investigating local credit card skimming operations. On January 13, a Chase Bank investigator told police he had captured video images of…
Category: Skimmers
CA: Two sentenced for gas station identity thefts
To follow up on a case previously covered on this blog in March and October, this report from Mark Anderson of the Sacramento Bee: A gang that used card readers to skim personal information at gas station card readers in Northern California was busted for identity theft, and two of the four were sentenced to…
Victim numbers continue to climb in EVG Quality breach
From today’s Los Angeles Times: Police have identified 380 victims of credit or debit card fraud at a Sierra Madre gas station with losses exceeding $109,000, Police Chief Marilyn Diaz said Monday. […] “The fraudulent charges arising from credit and debit cards used at the EVG station are showing up both as EVG charges and…
FL: Credit-card skimmer found in Melbourne gas pump
J.D. Gallop reports: Hundreds of credit card numbers were compromised at a Melbourne gas station after a credit card skimmer was hidden inside a rigged pump last month. Police found the skimmer — attached with Velcro — at the RaceTrac at 4641 W. Eau Gallie Blvd. after getting complaints of fraudulent credit and debit card…
(update) EVG Quality Gas breach, Sierra Madre
A small update to the story by Adolfo Flores of the Pasadena Star News: The Secret Service has been called in. As significantly, the police are still looking for the owner of the gas station who closed the business and left town during Christmas week – right before all of the fraud reports starting coming…
MI: One of two suspects in Taco Bell credit card scheme pleads guilty
John Tunison reports: Onil Rivas-Perez, a man police say took part in a scheme to digitally skim credit card numbers from Taco Bell customers, has pleaded guilty to identity theft. Rivas-Perez, 36, of Byron Center, entered the plea Tuesday before Kent County Circuit Court Judge Dennis Lieber and will be sentenced Feb. 24. Police said…