The Alamo Area Council of Governments has delivered more than 70 credit card skimmer devices to 65 law enforcement jurisdictions in the Alamo region to train law enforcement personnel and the public about how they help criminals steal money using personal information from an individual’s credit card and to reduce the impact of the crimes in our area, a news release from the council said.
Credit card skimmers, typically implanted on fuel pumps and ATMs, are used to illegally “skim” the numbers embedded in the magnetic strip of debit and credit cards when they are inserted in the terminal, the release ...