Three people are in the Tarrant County Jail charged with engaging in organized criminal activity and unlawful use of electronic communications.
Investigators tell NBC 5 it stems from one of the most common ways fraudsters try to steal your money when you use an ATM.By now, when withdrawing money from an ATM, we know to take the extra security step of concealing our PIN.Financial Crimes Intelligence Center
. The agency started up in 2022 after state lawmakers passed a bill designed to help coordinate investigations into organized financial fraud. FCIC is a partnership of the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation and the Smith County District Attorney’s Office.In the most recent case, FCIC recovered 26 what it calls deep-insert skimmer devices and parts to create 13 more.and rely on reading the back of the magnetic stripe on a credit card and often combining it with using a small pinhole camera to record a user’s pin.
“As soon as we learned that these suspects were traveling into Texas, they were here less than a week total before an arrest was made,” Roberts says. Investigators say the three are accused of placing skimming devices throughout Tarrant and Dallas County and are suspects in several skimmer investigations spanning multiple states.
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