Another credit card skimming device was found at a store in the Central New York area, state troopers said.
An employee at a Save a Lot Food store in Cortlandville spotted the device Monday, Trooper Aga Dembinska, a state police spokesperson, said in a news release Friday.
The store is located at 1111 State Route 222. Police did not say which register the device was placed at.
Dembinska said the employee was making a purchase when he noticed the keys on the credit card machine’s keypad looked different.
He pulled on the cover of the keypad and the skimming device came off, Dembinska said.
No suspect information was released by police Friday.
Similar devices were found at more than a dozen Walmarts in the region over the July 4 weekend.
Experts said the devices are capable of copying credit card information and sending it nearby through bluetooth or practically anywhere through cell service.
To avoid being scammed, experts say to use a card’s chip instead of swiping.
Even better, use the tap feature or Apple Pay or Google Pay, which encrypts card data, according to experts.
While some skimmers are capable of collecting information from transactions where a chip is used, there are fewer of those devices and it can be more difficult to collect that data, according to experts.
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Walmart stores hit
These are the Walmart stores police agencies have said had skimmers secretly installed, mostly between July 2 and July 5. There could be more stores hit, but Walmart officials refuse to release what stores were targeted. (Note the list includes the checkout lane number where available.)
- Auburn (No. 2)
- Camillus (No. 5)
- Canandaigua (No. 15)
- Central Square (No. 1)
- Cortland/Cortlandville (No. 2)
- East Syracuse (No. 6)
- Fulton/Granby (No. 7)
- Geneva (No. 13)
- Johnson City (No. 11)
- Norwich
- Oswego (No. 1)
- Painted Post Erwin (No. 5)
- Waterloo (No. 10)
How to contact Walmart
A Walmart spokesperson said customers concerned they may have been impacted by the skimmers should contact their card provider or Walmart Customer Care Team at 800-925-6278.
More on credit card skimmers
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The questions Walmart refuses to answer about credit card skimmers found at 5 Central NY stores
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