My wife recently had her ATM/Debit card stolen. She works at a parcel mailing place part-time. She keeps her purse in the back of the store and one of the package delivery drivers swiped it out of her purse. She and her boss figured they knew who did it. Due to her doggedness in not letting it go and her calls to the PD and the stores where it was used plus the bank, they caught the perp, just who they thought it was. Turns out he used a fake name to get hired plus was wanted in a couple other states for burglary and robbery. He's cooling his heels in a Texas jail as I type. The bank was quick in taking off the $300 in bogus charges to our account. You've got to act quick to catch these guys. The store where he used the card was within a day of taping over the surveillance tape.
It is amazing how easy it is for these people to steal this information. I have been in contact with the stores that they tried to obtain credit and they do have video and as soon as you made your post....I did contact oneof them and made sure they had not erased it. So I APPRECIATE THAT THOUGHT!
Out of curiosity, was her card the type that needs a pin code for the purchase to be completed? I only ask because several years ago, someone (a mover that was packing up my household belongings for a cross-country relocation) stole my Visa credit card and used it to make cash advances out of 2 atm machines. This was just a regular Visa credit card, not linked to any bank account for debits or anything like that. He had to have a pin number to get cash advances, and I had destroyed my pin number (I don't need a credit card for cash advances) and I had no idea what the pin number even was. I never was able to learn how he was able to do that without a pin code, unless he had a contact at the bank that issued the credit card that provided that to him.