Also, the shopping was abysmal—when you wanted groceries or new clothes, you generally had to buy whatever was available at ...

1. Skimming and shimming scams How this scam works. Credit card skimming scams happen when fraudsters get your card information by skimming it when you conduct transactions at retail point-of-sale ...

By seizing the skimmers, the fake IDs, and the payment cards, the FCIC estimates around $23 million in additional potential ...

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Shimming allows criminals to create fake credit cards with your card information. Now that we’ve adopted chip cards in the U.S., magnetic stripe cards are becoming a thing of the past.

A local fraud director is warning residents to be vigilant as reports of card skimming and phishing continue across the area.