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Skimmers Siphoning Card Data at the Pump

Summary: Thieves attached card skimmers to gas pumps at more than 30 service stations along highways in and around Denver, Colorado, and a regional bank found that virtually all compromised cardholders had bought gas along the Interstate 25 corridor. The pumps showed no outward signs of tampering because the devices were planted inside, and several Valero stations said police and U.S. Secret Service agents visited them looking for skimmers.

Bottom line: The bank source said the hacked pumps tended to sit on the outside edges of stations, hardest for clerks to see, and that victims reported phone calls promising gift cards for buying gas at specific Denver-area stations. A skimmer inside a pump can draw on the pump's own power to keep capturing card data indefinitely, so the station's cameras and clerks may never register that anything changed.

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Fraud & Scams
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