Public Alert | ATM Skimming & Tampering Devices At Toronto & GTA Hospitals
Channel: Toronto Police Service
Date: 17/04/2012

Public Safety Alert,
ATM tamper devices at hospitals

Broadcast time: 14:49
Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Financial Crimes Unit
416-808-7300

On Tuesday, April 17, 2012, at 10:30 a.m., the Toronto Police Service Financial Crimes Unit held a news conference.

Police would like to make the public aware of ATM skimming devices affixed to ATMs within hospitals.

In the past six months, tamper devices from ATM machines have been seized from the following hospitals:

1) The Scarborough General Hospital
2) North York General Hospital
3) Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital
4) Lakeridge Health Bowmanville
5) Southlake Health Centre (Newmarket)
6) Toronto East General Hospital
7) Toronto Western Hospital
8) Hospital for Sick Children

Tamper devices are equipped with a secondary card reader and a pinhole camera. Customer PIN and card data are recorded and stored on the devices for the production of counterfeit credit and debits.

This tamper devices are placed on top of legitimate components of the ATM.
Members of the public who use any ATM, at any location, are reminded to always cover your PIN.

Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 416-808-7300, Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477), online at www.222tips.com, text TOR and your message to CRIMES (274637), or Leave A Tip on Facebook.

Constable Tony Vella, Corporate Communications, for Staff Inspector Bryce Evans, Financial Crimes Unit

Anonymous information about suspects can be submitted to Toronto Crime Stoppers
Talk:  1-800-222-8477
Type:  http://222tips.com 
Text:  TOR plus your tip to 274637

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