Credit card skimmer sentenced to 4 years in prison
March 11, 2021
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) A 35-year-old man described as “an experienced credit card skimmer” has been sentenced to four years in federal prison for bank fraud.
The case started in April 2018 in New York City, the US Attorney’s Office in Oregon said in a release. Ciprian Simion was arrested there for using fake ATM cards and pins to withdraw cash. Investigators later found about 100 forged debit cards and three forgery devices, KOIN reported.
A grand jury indicted him on more than 200 counts for fraud.
But after the charges in New York, Simion moved to Oregon. In March 2019, Simion and another man, Gabriel Tigmarau, put a credit card skimmer on a Rivermark Community Credit Union ATM in Newberg, along with skimmers at several other ATMs.
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Gabriel Tigmarau, 50, was caught in this photo withdrawing cash from an ATM after placing an ATM skimmer device on it. The skimmer device grabbed customers bank card numbers, and personal identification numbers.
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A man who stole more than $27,000 from three credit unions by planting skimming devices on ATM machines to obtain at least 354 bank account numbers and cash from unsuspecting victims was sentenced Wednesday to three and a half years in federal prison.
Gabriel Tigmarau, 50, obtained at least 289 account numbers from Rivermark Community Credit Union in Newberg, more than 25 numbers from Unitus Community Credit Union and at least 40 card numbers from the IBEW Federal Credit Union in Portland, according to federal prosecutors.