Secret Service agents warn fleets about 'fuel skimming' thieves

Fuel station skimming is a technique for stealing credit and debit card information from point-of-sale terminals at fuel pumps. In some cases, thieves use fuel skimmers with cellular chipsets to transmit data, but this practice is less common since the devices are more prone to being located by law...

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Published inCommercial Carrier Journal : CCJ (Online)
Main Author Huff, Aaron
Format Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Tuscaloosa Randall Reilly 21.09.2021
Subjects
Counterfeiting
Fraud
Magnetic cards
Telematics
Vehicles
United States > US
Texas
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Summary:Fuel station skimming is a technique for stealing credit and debit card information from point-of-sale terminals at fuel pumps. In some cases, thieves use fuel skimmers with cellular chipsets to transmit data, but this practice is less common since the devices are more prone to being located by law enforcement, Lomonaco said. Comdata has a product that uses GPS and vehicle tank capacity data from ELD telematics systems to enhance pre-authorization fuel controls, he said.
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