Posted on 01/17/2016 8:24:48 AM PST by aimhigh
Police in Hudson and Pelham alerted citizens last week that skimming devices had been found on gas pumps at different stations. The devices appear like legitimate card scanners, but have actually been rigged to the machine in an attempt to gain the account information as the customer slides the card and uses the personal-identification number to complete the transaction.
Dairon Julio Jimenez Roja, 25; Francisco Tamayo Noguera, 35; and Elvis Barban Chavez, 44, also known as Elvis Barban, were first arrested.
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Time to start executing these f—ks.
A lot of them are at those 7-11 Mini Marts where the manager is in cahoots with the scammers. (did I write cahoots? watching too many retro westerns)
This happened to me twice last year in the Wiltshire/Beverly area of Los Angeles. I now use only cash at gas stations. All gas stations, always.
Nothing wrong with “cahoots” or the way you used it. There’s a lot of sidewinders out there.
Time to use a chip card.
Not to mention cut purses and high binders...and of course blackhearts.
This is why I use a credit card... cash back, and they are on the hook for fraud, not me.
Smile when you say that, pardner ...
Hey, watch what you say about highbinders.
Cash only for the last 5 years.
“Time to go back to cash.”
I did that a long time ago, and I’m so glad that I did.
I'll smile alright, but I'll be slappin' leather while I do it.
The deadline for liability shift was October, 2015. So now, if a store sells 1,000.00 worth of clothing to someone who uses a cloned card and you didn't have a chip reading terminal, the RETAILER now loses the grand, not the card processor. I'm hoping that by mid-2016, retailers (especially pay at the pump terminals) will realize the exposure is just too high and get the stuff swapped out. Hell, I'd even pay for a USB chip reader for my PC to cover online purchases were it possible.
I remember reading something not long ago where something similar was done on an ATM. I think it was there was a camera hidden to catch not only the card number but the PIN too.
CASH at the pumps!!!
I try to pay cash nowadays as much as possible.
Public executions on youtube.
The system is too soft on thieves assuming they get caught at all.
A picture of one of these things would sure help us ignorant hicks to recognise them.
its pretty easy to check for the scanners. They fit over the top of the original one. Every time I use one at the gas station or bank atm I grab it and pull on it. The scams will pull off. I’ve never found one but a policeman friend told me how to check.
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