Bonneville County searching for suspects involved in skimming fraud
The Bonneville County Sheriff’s Office responded to the Chevron gas station on 65th S. and Overland Dr., near the 113 exit of I-15, where a credit card skimmer was found.
A credit card skimmer is a device that is placed over the top of an existing credit card swiping or chip insert machine that gathers the data stored on cards that are run through it.
It also allows the machine to function normally transaction to transaction without notice to the business. or user.
Suspects who placed the device either return to retrieve it or download the stolen information some other way.
In this case, the device was placed over top of the existing credit card machine near the register and appeared very similar to the model used by the store.
Deputies and store personnel were able to retrieve video of two suspects, one that placed the skimmer while the other distracted the clerk.
It took place about 8:30 on Wednesday February 6th and was discovered around 12:30 pm.
Deputies are still working to determine whether any data stored on the skimmer device was transferred outside the store and exactly how much information may have been unlawfully collected.
The Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in identifying the suspects in the pictures, both male adults with a foreign accent.
At the time the device was placed, both suspects walked separately from a nearby business to the Chevron presumably from an unknown vehicle.
If you have any information about the suspects, you are asked to call Bonneville County dispatch at 208-529-1200 and ask to speak to a deputy as soon as possible.
If you used a credit card at the Chevron location between 8:30 pm Wednesday and 12:30 today, to check their accounts and information as well as advise your financial instituion of potential fraud that may come to light using your information.
With this and any other crime, the public can always give anonymous tips through Crime Stoppers by calling 208-522-1983 or reporting online at www.ifcrime.org.
