ATM skimming scam hits Toronto Hospitals

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On Tuesday, April 17, 2012, at 10:30 a.m., the Toronto Police Service Financial Crimes Unit held a news conference.

Police would like to make the public aware of ATM skimming devices affixed to ATMs within hospitals.

In the past six months, tamper devices from ATM machines have been seized from the following hospitals:

1) The Scarborough General Hospital
2) North York General Hospital
3) Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital
4) Lakeridge Health Bowmanville
5) Southlake Health Centre (Newmarket)
6) Toronto East General Hospital
7) Toronto Western Hospital
8) Hospital for Sick Children

Tamper devices are equipped with a secondary card reader and a pinhole camera. Customer PIN and card data are recorded and stored on the devices for the production of counterfeit credit and debits.

This tamper devices are placed on top of legitimate components of the ATM.
Members of the public who use any ATM, at any location, are reminded to always cover your PIN. 

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