Baytown police bust credit card skimming operation, arrest duo with deep skimmers

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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 CountyRecords 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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