Possible credit card skimmer found at gas station, Ellsworth KS
FraudOfficers investigated a possible credit card skimmer at a gas station in Ellsworth after a customer reported multiple declined fraudulent charge attempts following a fuel purchase. The store manager reported one pump was out of service. Officers planned to check all pumps for any unauthorized card readers.
Audio|Source: Ellsworth City / County Public Safety
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Transcript:
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DNS oil on 156 and I-70, I had an RP that made a charge there yesterday and he said shortly after there was six attempts to
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run his card.
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He doesn't know if there might be a reader on one of the gas pumps or if it's coming from the store itself, but he just wanted to let us know about it in case there was a reader on one of those pumps.
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I didn't know if we could go out and check the pumps and see, and I was going to call the store manager and let her know.
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Yeah, 10-4[1].
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I can go there and let the store manager know.
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10-4[1].
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279, Ellsworth.
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Did the RP say whether those charges were successful,
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and he'd be looking to file a report at this point?
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279, that's negative.
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He said the charges were not successful,
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but there were several that were over (number withheld), but his card declined him.
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Several.
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Those were 279.
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Go ahead.
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I talked to the manager and she advises pump five is down.
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That was not even working and she said seven and three are the busiest.
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But the RP didn't tell me which pump he was on so if we could just check them all.
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10-4[1].
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10-4: Acknowledgment/Message received
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Ellsworth, KS 67439
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