The thin metal devices were inserted into the card reading slots of the ATMs by the pair and used to clone the credit card information of their victims.
A man and a woman have been sentenced over their roles in a $36,000 scam that saw card readers known as "shimmers" installed inside ATMs in
After reading the data on the cards magnetic strip and chip, the pair attended banks to withdraw money using stolen card data, the Australian Federal Police said.A man and a woman have been sentenced over their role in a $36,000 scam that saw card readers known as "shimmers" installed inside ATMs in Melbourne and Sydney.
A joint police investigation was alerted when people in Australia received packages from the UK, US, and China believed to contain the ATM "shimmers". The man, 34, pleaded guilty to possessing a thing used to obtain financial information, dealing with proceeds of crime, dishonestly dealing financial information, and attempting to dishonestly obtain personal financial information.A man and a woman have been sentenced over their role in a $36,000 scam that saw card readers known as "shimmers" installed inside ATMs in Melbourne and Sydney.
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