Statewide Iowa — These days most people swipe their debit card through an ATM and never give it a second thought. But that swipe can cost you if the wrong people are watching, as was evidenced by a recent case in eastern Iowa.
Two Romanian men who used credit card skimmers in eastern Iowa to try and get debit card information from nearly 200 people, were each sentenced to 10 months in prison.
Thirty-year-old Stefan Busoi and 29-year-old Razvan Diculescu were sentenced after pleading guilty to possession of device-making equipment.
Employees at a bank in Dubuque, along with police, found credit card skimmers and pinhole cameras on three ATMs in June of 2020. Authorities used traffic and ATM video footage to determine that the two men installed the skimmers and cameras, and arrested them when they returned to an ATM.
Both were in the United States illegally on fake Greek passports at the time of their arrest.
