Posted on February - 27 - 2011
Skimming Credit Cards by the hundreds in his valley smoke shop: A man has been charged
An owner of a business has been arrested as investigators suspect him to have skimmed hundreds of credit cards belonged to his own customers. In addition, they suspect there could be a lot more victims of this credit card fraud to be found later.
It is Gevorg Kegeyan a man who is 53 years old, who is being charged for using a credit card fraudulently. The investigators have made a search involving three smoke shop businesses belonged to him. They say that they have found the men, who did the fraudulent credit card operation. In addition, they have found 350 credit cards, debit cards and gift cards.
Action News was told by police that Kegeyan used to take the credit card used by the customer to make his or her payment and reads the data in it. Later he transfers the data into a card he will use.
The three locations in which Kegeyan had his victims are as follows.
The Cigarette Box on West Craig near Jones
Colton’s General Store on U.S. Highway 95 in Searchlight
The Cigarette Box on Casino Drive in Laughlin
In case you have gone to any of these three locations and if you feel that your credit card account could have been manipulated, the best thing is for you to call the police.
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