23 Oct 2015

Card skimmers target shoppers in Auckland

5:43 pm on 23 October 2015

Card skimmers have been targeting shoppers in the Auckland suburb of Albany.

The police have warned shoppers to be vigilant after at least five cases in the past fortnight.

They said it appeared the offenders had placed a very realistic device over the card-reading slot in order to capture information from the magnetic strip of a customer's card.

Victims of the theft only realised what had happened when they noticed money gone from their accounts.