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Credit Card Skimming at Gas Station

Posted on Mar 18, 2007 by Michelle Pastor

Here’s an interesting story that gives insight into identity theft by way of card skimming.  According to the 680 news in Seattle,

Three men from the G-T-A are facing 80 fraud charges related to a debit card skimming scam in Pickering and possibly throughout the G-T-A.

Durham Regional Police say the suspects would approach attendants at gas stations with an offer of money in exchange for installing a credit/debit card reading device. Investigators carried out search warrants and recovered equipment used to install credit card readers plus 38 counterfeit credit cards and identification.

Usually card skimmers will install the equipment themselves, but these thieves bribed the attendants to take care of it for them.  Read more on card skimming from previous blogs: How ATM Skimming Scams Work, WSJ Skimming Fraud Gets More Sophisticated  or Skimming and ATM Card Cleaning.