Baytown police arrested a couple accused of using a sophisticated credit card skimming operation with deep insert skimmers and pinhole cameras.
Baytown police arrested 25-year-old Perla Miclescu and 20-year-old Rafael Rafaila on multiple charges related to a credit card skimming scam. Harris County court records indicate the duo were in possession of a ‘deep insert skimmer’, ‘overlay pinhole cameras’ and 24 re-encoded credit cards.SUGGESTED: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton takes over bid-rigging case involving Harris County Records say Miclesu is a Romanian citizen and both defendants have current deportation proceedings.
"What they're doing is placing these skimmers internally inside the card reader, which we call deep Insert skimmers. Then they use a camera device which is hidden to look like stock hardware - that then captures when you put your pin number in. So, they're actually videotaping the transaction," he said.
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