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May 2, 2007
NEWS: Manhunt for Gas Station Thief
Last week, British authorities
announced that they would be commencing with an
international manhunt, with the intent to nab
those people responsible for perpetuating a gas
station credit card scam. Citing what they
referred to as the “unprecedented scale” of the
scam, police are cooperating on a major scale to
find the crooks involved. Police believe that
those responsible “skimmed” consumers’ credit
and/or debit card numbers via a foreign reader
implanted in place of the real device.
Humberside police are said to be going over
thousands of fuel purchase receipts from the
Hull station.
The number of consumers who bought gas at the
station and have since become victims of
skimming is said to amount to thousands. British
authorities have issued country-wide warnings to
consumers warning them to be leery of any
suspicious situations at gas stations. The
situation mirrors the fiasco earlier this year
at a busy station in Shrewsbury, where many
consumers had their cards skimmed and cloned by
a ring of unsavory fraudsters.
The owner of the fuel station at the center of
this latest investigation is said to be
cooperating fully with police as the matter is
being looked into.
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