A pair of Romanian tourists are suspected of using portable electronic “skimmers” and a tiny video camera to steal the credit card information of people buying stamps from a post office in Portland’s Parkrose neighborhood.
Postal inspectors arrested the two – Irinel Ocnareasa, 37, and Catalin-Ciaudiu Canuta, 32 – this week after Las Vegas authorities investigating a suspected ring of identity thieves tipped them that the two were in the Portland area.
Police have found an increase across the United States in the use of portable skimming devices, which identity thieves attach to scanners on ATMs and other credit and debit card scanners. The thieves often position tiny cameras near the devices to capture the PIN numbers punched in by customers.
Police and federal agents in Nevada began tailing Ocnareasa and Canuta after members of the suspected identity-theft ring were spotted at a U.S. Post Office in Las Vegas.
via Feds: Romanian tourists used ‘skimmer’ to steal credit card info from Portland postage machine
The OIG or Postal Inspectors could go after these people who are CLEARLY thieves. Instead, they focus on (apparently, not) trusted employees whom they suspect of stealing 705 and 706 belts from mail-sorting machines and selling them on eBay (to whom?). Was there ever any doubts that we work for total idiots? Q.? How do you lose $16B a year? A. Just look around you.