In the new year, I want to warn you about some of the biggest scams in our community.
In case you missed our annual “11 Call for Action Special,” I talked to the Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) about the top three issues consumers in our area lost the most money to. The first issue we talked about is skimmers.
“This is an overlay skimmer and this is something that you’ll find on an ATM machine if it had been corrupted by someone wanting to steal your credit card information,” said Detective Matt Hulett, with the CSPD Financial Crimes Unit. “What it would do is, everybody has a PIN if they are going to take money out of the ATM, so this would actually capture the PIN for their credit card.”
Hulett showed me examples of different skimmers as part of the “11 Call for Action Special: the Top Scams and Consumer Issues of 2022.” You can watch it on kktv.com.
“This is one you might find more on a gas pump where you’re not necessarily entering your PIN, just swiping your card,” said Hulett. “You should try to use a more modern gas pump, the ones prone to things like this are more of an old school mom-and-pop gas pump that don’t have the security features like a tap-to-pay or chip reader. You can always look at the pump to see if it’s been breached or battered or anything like that.”
The second biggest consumer issue in our area is…
