May 26, 2015
The FBI is seeking to identify three men it says are responsible for placing unauthorized skimming devices inside ATMs in central Pennsylvania.
According to the FBI, three unidentified white men installed and removed skimming devices in ATMs of bank branches located inside retail stores in Carlisle and Shippensburg. The FBI says the subjects then created compromised credit and ATM cards that were used in the Philadelphia area.
The illegal skimming devices were installed and removed during non-business banking hours but while the retail stores remained open. Skimming devices record the account numbers of cards inserted into the machine.
The first subject installed and removed the skimming devices, while the other two men served as lookouts, the FBI says. They later cloned and compromised credit and debit cards that had been used in the affected ATMs and used the cloned cards to withdraw money from ATMs located at various convenience, pharmacy and retail locations in the Philadelphia region, according to the FBI.
The subjects are believed to have driven a small, white four-door sedan without a front license plate.
Anyone with information is asked to call the FBI at (215) 418-4000.