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  • Hotel Key Cards Fraud - NOT Quite an Urban Ledgend

    11/07/2003 9:43:13 AM PST · by steplock · 14 replies · 666+ views
    CONSUMER REPORTS
    CONSUMER REPORTS   UNLIKELY VICTIM   Name: Jerry Coleman, 51, assistant district attorney, San Francisco PROBLEM: Twice while leading out-of-town ID-theft seminars and a third time locally, Coleman was the victim of “skimming” frauds that charged $28,000 to his accounts. In the first case, which resulted in several convictions, a hotel clerk swiped Coleman's credit card through a second, hidden card reader that transferred information onto the magnetic strip of a hotel key. The crooks then tried to charge perfume, among other things, to Coleman's account. The other two cases are unsolved. “If you can get them mid-scam, you can...