TUSCALOOSA, AL — The Tuscaloosa Police Division is warning the general public to pay attention to bank card skimmers within the space after the scamming units had been discovered on gasoline pumps in sure areas off of Interstate 20/59.

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TPD stated investigators imagine offenders goal gasoline stations alongside interstates and place the units on pumps earlier than shifting on to the following exit.

“They’re going to return after a time period, then use the sufferer’s bank card data after a while has handed,” the division stated in its message to the general public. “This makes it much less probably that incriminating video surveillance might be discovered.”

TPD then stated its Legal Investigations Division is actively monitoring gasoline stations within the space, particularly these close to the interstate, and haven’t discovered any skimmers at present in use.

Nonetheless, police proceed to advise the general public to routinely examine their financial institution statements and report any uncommon or doubtlessly fraudulent exercise.

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