Investigators are seeing more card skimmers. These devices that can steal your banking information from your credit or debit card. Thieves plant them at all sorts of businesses.
Tacoma, WA. - Next time you look over your monthly billing statement, keep an eye out for any unfamiliar charges.more card skimmers: devices that can steal your banking information from a credit or debit card. "It slides right over the top and you can barely tell that they’re even there," said Sergeant Darren Moss with the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department. More than 30 U.S. cities have reported skimmer theft incidents in the last three months"It captures the information that’s on that magnetic stripe," said TrustedSec Consultant Alex Hamerstone." then allows the scammers or the hackers or the attackers to either use those card numbers online, or to create new cards." .
"It’s not often that they’re found," Moss said. "Again, the thieves will put them on there, maybe leave them up for a couple of days, one night or a week and then come and take it away." COSTCO FINDS 5 CARD SKIMMERS AT FOUR CHICAGO-AREA WAREHOUSES"In the old days, they were often times very recognizable," Hamerstone said. "They were clunky, they looked like they didn’t belong. But oftentimes, now they’re inside the card reader, they’re inside the slot.
Lori lightfoot is record with a message- “don’t carry cash” that solves the crime problem. The world is just too complicated for some.
Are we heading back to cash?
More like seeing a rise on cops being lazy on enforcing the law
NYCMayor GovKathyHochul might as well assume NY is chock full of skimmers. What are you going to do to combat the trend?