Why go on a shopping spree when you can go on a "skimming spree"?
That's what prosecutors called the five-day card-theft binge they accuse three people of undertaking at JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s automated teller machines near New York's Union Square, The New York Times
The three are accused of using skimming devices to record card-stripe data and hidden cameras to record PIN codes at 11 ATMs at four JPMorgan Chase locations within a mile of Union Square, the article said. The compromised card data was then used to make more than a quarter of a million dollars in fraudulent transactions, affecting 1,500 customers, the article said.
The three accused are from Quebec. Nikolai Ivanov and Dimitar Stamatov were arrested in May (the indictment was unsealed Nov. 16). Iordan Ivanov, who is Nikolai Ivanov's brother, is likely still in Canada, police say.
