by admin | Feb 26, 2018 | Scam of the day
Phoenix police are trying to identify the criminals seen on surveillance videos installing a skimmer on an ATM at a Phoenix gas station. Skimmers are small electronic devices that are easily installed by an identity thief on ATMs, gas pumps and other card reading...
by admin | Feb 5, 2018 | Scam of the day
A week ago I reported to you that the Secret Service has just issued a warning to American banks about hackers being able to install malware inside ATMs enabling them to gain access to all of the money contained in the machines. This new technique is called...
by admin | Dec 13, 2017 | Scam of the day
Seven Romanian members of a gang called the Hornea Crew, named after its leaders Constantin Hornea and Ludemis Hornea pleaded guilty recently in Federal Court in Boston to charges related to installing skimmers in ATMs in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire New...
by admin | Mar 16, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Recently, Dinu Horvat was convicted of a host of charges including conspiracy to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft in regard to a scheme in which he installed skimmers on ATMs and hidden cameras to observe people using the ATMs as they input their...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 18, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
As long as there have been banks, there have been bank robbers because, quite simply, as one famous bank robber once said, “because that is where the money is.” It should therefore come as no surprise that many thieves have focused much of their attention...
