Teenager Sentenced for Card Skimming
Bank Info Security reports a 17-year-old was slapped with a 60-day jail sentence after he was busted for skimming credit and debit details while working the drive-thru window at a McDonald’s restaurant in Olympia, Washington. This insider scam highlights a card fraud trend the industry needs to watch, experts say. In the McDonald’s incident, the teen’s card-fraud scheme was foiled before exceeding $13,000 in losses, after transaction monitoring traced the fraud. Detectives connected the dots and linked fraud to the Olympia McDonald’s when contacted by the Washington State Employees Credit Union about fraudulent transactions hitting member accounts. The credit union found one commonality: All of the compromised cards had been used at the same McDonald’s. McDonald’s management later confirmed the juvenile suspect had worked the drive-thru every time one of the compromised cards had been used.
