Check your bank accounts everyone...
If you used the self check out machines at Luckys market and afew Savemarts
[url=http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2011/12/06/lucky-supermarket-chain-reveals-scope-of-card-reader-scam/]Lucky Supermarket Chain Reveals Scope Of Card Reader Scam « CBS San Francisco[/url] |
Lucky Supermarket Chain Reveals Scope Of Card Reader*Scam
Customers using the self-checkout at a Lucky supermarket. (CBS) SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – More than 100 employees and customers have had their identities stolen at Bay Area Lucky supermarkets by thieves who tampered with the credit and debit card readers in self-checkout lines, according to the company. The store chain announced Monday that thieves managed to place card skimmers into the readers at 23 stores. The readers captured personal information from 23 customers and 80 employees. The chain says many of those people had money stolen from their accounts. Store officials recommend that anyone who used self-checkout terminals in the affected stores in the past few months to close their accounts immediately. KCBS’ Holly Quan Reports: Save Mart Supermarkets, which operates Lucky stores, originally reported tampering at 20 locations throughout the Bay Area, along with one Save Mart store in Watsonville. The company has since learned that three more stores in Novato, Sunnyvale and Petaluma were targeted, said Alicia Rockwell, public affairs director for Save Mart. The three additional stores were missed in the original report sent to the company’s Asset Protection Team, she said. “These were not newly tampered card readers but part of the original discovery,” she said. At each store, only one card reader in a self-checkout lane was targeted, Rockwell said. The company has received at least 80 employee and customer reports about the compromised or attempted compromise of card data, Rockwell said. The skimming devices that are installed in the card machines capture credit card numbers and debit card PIN numbers. Identity thieves then make transactions on those cards. The company first learned about the problem around Nov. 11 and sent out a Consumer Advisory on Nov. 23, Rockwell said. There was no estimate of how many customers may have been victimized or the total amount that was fraudulently taken from their debit accounts or added to credit card debt because reports are still coming in, Rockwell said. “We feel awful about this. We’re reeling,” Rockwell said. Rockwell said the U.S. Secret Service was investigating the case. “We strongly recommend our customers who used a self-checkout lane in the affected stores contact their financial institution to close existing accounts and seek further advice,” Rockwell said. SaveMart, the parent company of Lucky, said it has checked all its stores and wants to assure customers that its card readers are now safe. Save Mart operates 233 stores in Northern California and Northern Nevada under the Save Mart, S-Mart Foods, Lucky and FoodMaxx banners. Any Lucky customer affected by fraudulent use of their debit or credit card should contact the store’s Customer Support Center, 800-692-5710. Stores with tampered card readers: 815 Marina Village Parkway, Alameda 6843 Mission St., Daly City 1000 El Cerrito Plaza, El Cerrito 5000 Mowry Ave., Fremont 35820 Fremont Blvd., Fremont 919 Edgewater Blvd., Foster City 25151 Santa Clara St., Hayward 45 Murchison Drive, Millbrae 1350 S Park Victoria Dr., Milpitas 715 E El Camino Real, Mountain View 1761 Grant Ave., Novato 939 Lakeville Highway, Petaluma 1530 Fitzgerald Drive, Pinole 200 Woodside Plaza, Redwood City 1133 Old County Rd., San Carlos 234 Saratoga Ave., Santa Clara 5510 Monterey Highway, San Jose 200 El Paseo De Saratoga, San Jose 844 Blossom Hill Rd., San Jose 3270 South White Rd., San Jose 1515 Sloat Blvd., San Francisco 484 N Mathilda Ave., Sunnyvale 32300 Dyer St., Union City SaveMart, 1465 Main St., Watsonville (Copyright 2011 by CBS San Francisco. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.) |
this is why i give my money to a live person.
sucks for all the people who got their money and info stolen |
i think this happened to me. Someone took about 80 dollars in 3 separate transactions using some money exchanger related to London or something
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I wish they would show pictures of what the skimmers used at Lucky's looked like.
Considering that the Lucky's readers look like this, the skimmer module must have stuck out of the reader like an extension. [IMG]http://media.cmgdigital.com/shared/img/photos/2011/12/05/56/86/credit-scam.jpg[/IMG] |
[QUOTE=chimchimm5;3175016]I wish they would show pictures of what the skimmers used at Lucky's looked like.
Considering that the Lucky's readers look like this, the skimmer module must have stuck out of the reader like an extension.[/QUOTE] they said that these skimmers were actually placed inside the card readers so you couldn't see them. they are a small circuit board with connectors. it is completely hidden and they have to open the units again to take them out. they said that they were installed on the self check-out lanes because it's easier to manipulate the card readers when there isn't a checker around. no more self check-out for me. :ohwell: |
So many companies are having our info stolen and want us to close our accounts. BAR sent us a letter last week telling us to do the same because the company they use to collect our smog certificate money was hit with the same thing.
I swear they expect us to have 10 bank accounts to use in 10 seperate places. Do they think constantly closing and reopening accounts looks good on our credit? |
i always use cash at self checkout stands except at Home Depot. hopefully the home depot machines weren't tampered with
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