COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – For the second time this month, a credit card skimmer has been found on a gasoline pump at a station in Coldwater. The latest was discovered Wednesday morning at the Citgo Station on East Chicago Road near I-69.
The device captures credit and debit card information when someone pays with a card at the pump allowing the thieves to use the skimmer to have access to the data to rob a customer’s identity and possibly their bank accounts. The device at the Citgo was located Wednesday by the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development which was making a routine examination of the gasoline pumps to examine them for the potential placement of skimmers.
The MDARD inspector removed the skimmer and later showed it to the Coldwater Police Department before turning it over to the U.S. Secret Service for further investigation. MDARD wasn’t able to say how long the Citgo skimmer had been in place or how many customers might have been victimized by the device that had been installed on the station’s pump number 8.
Officials say anyone who had used a credit or debit card recently at the Citgo on East Chicago Road in Coldwater should carefully check their bank and credit records. On November 6, skimmers were located at two Shell stations in Coldwater and later that weekend, two people with connections to the Miami, Florida area were taken into custody in Huntington, Indiana as suspects in the case with the FBI assisting in the arrests.
