{"id":16479,"date":"2017-11-18T03:55:18","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T08:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/?p=16479"},"modified":"2017-11-27T21:28:15","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T02:28:15","slug":"authorities-combating-credit-card-skimming-at-gas-pumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2017\/11\/18\/authorities-combating-credit-card-skimming-at-gas-pumps\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities Combating Credit Card Skimming At Gas Pumps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16480\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2017\/11\/18\/authorities-combating-credit-card-skimming-at-gas-pumps\/credit-card-skimmer-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/credit-card-skimmer.jpg?fit=259%2C194&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"259,194\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"credit card skimmer\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/credit-card-skimmer.jpg?fit=259%2C194&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/credit-card-skimmer.jpg?resize=259%2C194\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16480\" \/><br \/>\nFederal authorities in Kentucky say the arrests of several people accused of stealing personal information from gas pumps is just the start of a crackdown on credit card skimmers.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Attorney Russell M. Coleman said Friday (11\/17) that the eight people ensnared so far in the investigation were able to target thousands of victims in the Louisville area. He says the total losses for those victims exceeded $3.5 million. So far, authorities say two defendants have been sentenced to prison, while others have pleaded guilty or are awaiting trial.<\/p>\n<p>Coleman is predicting more arrests. And he&#8217;s warning perpetrators that they will &#8220;become intimately familiar with the Federal Bureau of Prisons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say the scheme involves installing the skimming devices in gas pumps to retrieve credit card and other personal information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal authorities in Kentucky say the arrests of several people accused of stealing personal information from gas pumps is just the start of a crackdown on credit card skimmers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aKAp-4hN","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-01 13:02:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16482,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16479\/revisions\/16482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}