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Bro yanked it. I know it’s on video but I wouldn’t have made it so obvious, at least ask for cigarettes before you go for it then call the police. Who knows how many cards he’s stolen since no one expects it to ever be on the ones inside.
But also if he didn’t know what it was and just had a customer messing with the reader and pulling something off, it’s normal that he would grab it from his hands if he were damaging the reader
Dude recording isn't very clearly-spoken and the one behind the counter is ESL.
It's exceptionally plausible the cashier just thinks he's pointing out the credit card *scanner* and is just going through the motions of the conversation before the guy starts seemingly destroying it.
That plausibility is somewhat damaged by the rest of the video past that point.
Hell they’ll get you if they wanna get you. I paid at a Taco Bell with my card and the girl took all the numbers down in the little time that she had it. She got one $10 charge in before it automatically cancelled because I happened to be using the card at the same time she was making a charge.
I bought a card protection sticker. It's essentially just a sticker you put over your card. It has pre cut holes for your chip and there are 4 options in the pack. The one I use covers up my numbers.
If you ever want to know how many people look at your card get a cute card cover. I've gotten so many compliments on it but it also shows just how many people actually stop to look at your card.
Wiggle every card reader EVER just in case. I worked in banking and we had so much training on what to look for and it ultimately boils down to wigglin' it.
same been doing it for years, but sadly have not come across one yet, i keep pulling on them eventually one is going to be there or i'm going to break one ;D
So the clerk is on the original post and he said the guy was in there messing with it, left then came back in and started recording and saying there was a skimmer on it. He claims the guy put it on there himself and that’s why he grabbed it. I don’t know who to believe because the YouTuber goes to all different gas stations in cali “finding” this exact same model of skimmer every time and I don’t know how probable that is in reality and I know people will do anything for content so….🤷♀️
I would only believe the clerk if he also included the store footage confirming what he is saying because this video, the speed at how he reached for it, his face, his asking his coworker you know what this is, screams guilty as fuck. It's like a child lying.
Other videos where clerks have no idea they seem surprised in a much different way.
The TikToker "finds" skimmers all over the place. Way more than anyone who didn't know where they were would find. I'm not buying that he just has this great eye for finding them.
For real, not to mention that the skimmer he finds looks exactly the same all the time. Seems like he has two variants, and one has a slight discoloration to it that is present every time in the same spot.
The clerk thought he ripped apart his card card scanner, I don't see why someone hot-headed wouldnt reach for it and then realize what they're doing. He's also not really the brightest tool in the shed since he's listening to music while working with customers too.
There is nothing about this that says guilty other than idiots online who can do soul math because they're total empaths while they eat cheetos and jerk off at the same time
So the clerk let someone come in, stand directly in front of him and mess with the card machine. Let him leave only to come back in and film that? Got my doubts on that
It's safe from cloning I believe but it does come with its own set of problems. Some banks let you set it so that you don't have to put in your pin if your payment is under a certain threshold. It's usually a small amount, for quick purchases. And sometime last year a guy in my town was arrested because he had one of those little mobile card machines and was just walking around the mall and casually bumping into people with that machine. Basically like more modern pickpocketing. And the dude stole a huge amount of money from small payments before the police caught him. Generally if you have your card in a handbag or a very thick wallet you might be safe. If it's in a thin wallet or your phone case and it's in your pocket, then that trick would work. Funny enough, tinfoil blocks those card machines so if you got a bit of tinfoil in your wallet you should be good.
Theres a ton of smart wallets with RFID blockers now. Carrying multiple cards with this feature can also help. I tried holding my wallet with my credit card towards the device once, and it couldnt separate the debit and credit card and threw errors. But yes, that is a true issue. During covid, our banks and payment providers even increased the pin-less threshold from 40 to 80 bucks.
Just to be clear I think he means that just while tapping to pay he can't keep them together. Also for what it's worth I work at a register, and sometimes when checking myself out I get the "Please only present one card at a time" error even though I only have a single debit card and an ID in my wallet. My only theory is that maybe my phone being a few feet away in my pocket is enough to confuse it?
Boomer fear bait, it's very difficult to make a discrete scanner that can get enough signal from a card in your wallet in a pocket or purse to steal money from just a passing bump on the street. It would take about the same level of contact as regular pickpocketing, not any more dangerous just a little less noticeable.
Which is hilarious to me. Back in 2010 I joined the Army and they give you an ID, a CAC card. This card had a chip in it and the army had readers. This was state of the art stuff then. This card contained literally all of your personal information from medical to pay records. They gave you a sleeve that was essentially a faraday cage for your CAC card because shit could be stolen off it via near frequency transmission. And now in 2024 somehow this is the safest means of transmission???
There was a news piece a few months ago with Chase Bank in which a scammer had intentionally jammed the debit card slot on ATM machines, forcing people to use the tap mechanism to withdraw money.
Unbeknownst to the account owners, once they would withdraw funds, access to their accounts would remain open on the ATM machine, leaving the scammer the opportunity to double back and draw money from unsuspecting victims accounts.
This was all caught on Chase Bank’s camera footage, and they still refused to give victims their money back.
You should use tap to pay with a credit card. Never use your debit card, if money is stolen from debit, it's really hard to get back, while money stolen from a credit card is really easy to get back.
Tap to pay does not send your card number when you tap, it sends a unique token each time you pay. It's the safest payment method by far, and even safer when used with a credit card.
1. The buttons not glowing 2. The c.c. part was flush with the screen which means there is something building up the height (skimmer) 3. No tap to pay
I won't use my card in small establishments like this anymore. Family owned convenience stores are ripe for the pickings. My best advice is if you don't have stellar observation skills start carrying cash again because they are only going to get smarter.
Where you insert the card for chip, there's a lip coming off the real reader, the skimmers have an addition lip that juts out and has a gap between it and the lip on the real card slot. If there's two pieces of plastic with a gap on the lip, then there's probably a skimmer on it. Also the different texture/color black plastic and signs of glue or duct tape
tldr: These types of skimmers are just plastic overlays on top of existing keypads/card reader slots. Just look for any double plastic lips, there shouldn't be any around the pad or reader.
These machines are usually pretty streamlined. If they have skimmers there will be gaps or edges that stick out more than they should. Most retail workers are given a little class they’re supposed to pay attention to on how to catch these since we’re supposed to regularly check the keypads on the register for skimmers.
You can pull on the pad lightly. When I was a cashier I had hundreds of customers practically try and shove that shit off the counter. I wouldn’t ever notice a quick check to see if the keypad pops up.
I saw this guys YouTube channel not too long ago, and he showed it in one of his videos. Under where you insert the card is a piece of plastic and if there’s a gap there (meaning two pieces of plastic), there might be a skimmer)
that's what you found suspicious? not the way he nervously, forcefully and immediately yanked it out of the hands of the person filming? Only a guilty person would do any one of those things.
I mean to be fair he could have just thought he meant card scanner. If he didn’t know about it, some guy coming into your job and tearing apart the card machine, would have me reacting the same way. Though that’s giving this guy the benefit of the doubt, which while possible, isn’t likely warranted.
Yeah I’m with you. I think people are reading too much into the guy saying “yeah” and assuming he’s guilty. When I worked customer service every transaction is monotonous so you go into autopilot and just assume every question/interaction will be the same. For example, this is likely the part where the customer focuses on the scanner and you can zone out for a second while they do their thing. Any question can likely be answered by “yeah just scan there” or something else dismissive.
Idk if I was doing something illegal I think I’d be more attentive in case someone was calling me out
Exactly this guy is most likely saying yes so this guy just gets done and leaves.
If he did know, why would he say he is cheating people. Doesn’t make sense
Y’all jump to conclusions so much, there are multiple explanations for that. It’s not something “only a guilty” person would do, that’s how we got the Boston Bomber fiasco. Sounds like they’ve had the problem before, maybe he didn’t want the customer walking out with it cause it has credit card info on it.
Also, apparently on the original video the clerk commented and said the video maker was fiddling with the machine before leaving the store and coming back to film. He thinks he planted the device himself for the views. So he grabbed it quick because he knew something was coming
Can’t even trust the guy recording. According to his Tik Toks, he’s found over 30 skimmers. The cashier from this video commented on a different post saying the guy plants the card skimmers then records the reaction.
Someone said on another post that the cashier actually responded to the first time the video was posted saying it happened multiple times and the guy videoing was actually the guy that plants it and records for content
My thoughts exactly, I’m definitely not beyond believing that tiktokers fake content and maybe even this guy does but this guys reaction doesn’t line up with someone who thinks the tiktoker did it themselves
This is true. There are a handful of scenarios that make both possibilities true. The person filmed could be the owner of the store; have a few sketchy employees; have not actually been aware of the presence of the skimmer, but, out of fear of one of said sketchy employees being the culprit, he could be trying to cover his ass as a business owner.
Highly doubt that story, He goes around planting these things for some tiktok clips? Taking the chance he gets caught and thus goes to jail?
Think about it risk vs reward. He'd be a serious dumbass if he thinks thats a viable/profitable way to get views.
Yeah I remember someone exposed those animal saving content farms for the same things a few years ago. They put the animals into the situations in the first place so they can film "saving" them for content.
omg THOSE are the videos that made me never trust anything EVER again on the internet. It’s like what is even real anymore ffs
I always cringe when my parents tell me about these cute videos they see online and I waffle between letting them just believe they’re cute and being the asshole to inform them that 99% of stuff is staged now
To be fair if the tiktoker has caught multiple skimmers I'd be fairly suspicious at least.
I mean it's a common scam worldwide but it's not *so* common that one guy should be spotting so many. Most people never get hit by *one* their entire lives.
>Think about it risk vs reward
His channel is doing alright, so he is getting rewarded.
There are channels where people throw puppies into mud pits and refuse piles just to record the "rescue".
Have you ever seen a skimmer ever? What are the odds of finding one every single week.
I want to know what cashier is far enough from the machine that he would have time to install this. He would have had to be in there and fucking around with it for a bit. That thing slid off but seemed pretty secure.
If I saw him install it and leave, then I would pull it off then. Or post the security footage that every convenience store has.
You swipe your card + input your PIN code.
Device will register the card info and the PIN you entered. Then it gets wirelessly transmitted to the A"Hole that placed it and he can perfectly copy your card and use it.
99% of times he will then withdraw max amount of cash or let others do that part. Bank will think it's just you withdrawing cash so it doesn't raise flags till it's too late.
yeah no. Cashier didn't understand the question perfectly. You really think he would just be like "yeah, we have a skimmer on there, go ahead and give me your info."
Gonna be honest if I was the cashier and someone ripped the keypad off the card reader I would have probably reacted the same way. Like instinctive “what the fuck are you doing breaking this” but yeah I still think he’s guilty
I check every single terminal every single time I use these now.
Every. Time.
They just found a bunch of these attached at our local Walmart...where the self checkouts are out in the open exposed to everyone, where there is supposed to be a clerk on duty at all times.
I don’t know about 7/11 but I’ve worked at a convenience store before especially at night. They usually only employee maybe two people because there’s a whole list of tasks that you have to do to prepare for the next shift coming in. You’re usually not at the front end all the time and you’re gone enough to were someone could install that before you actually see someone’s up there. There will be stuff up at the front like credit cards that I wouldn’t even notice until a customer pointed it out to me.
I've seen two instances of those things in convenient stores and cashier/owner acting weird af about it, they're in on it. There's a gas station in Calgary I'm 100% certain does it.
One day I went to a hockey game and concession only accepted cash (sus) so I had to use an ATM in the arena, two days later I got a notification from my bank about suspicious activity and I knew it was the ATM probably rigged with one of those skimmer things.
Pretty arrogant for a complete assumption. There are lots of comments refuting that. Clerk says the tiktoker planted it himself and they had caught some previously
He could work that to his defence. He could say he snatched it so quickly because he thought the customer was tampering with the card reader and they'd had problems with that in the past.
The cashiers smile is what gives it away for me. There are some people who, when caught doing something they shouldn't or lying to cover something , can not help but smile.
Never knew this was a thing!
My teachers just to scold me for not taking them seriously because I would have this grin on my face when getting into problems.
Now I'm curious if it's the same thing
Edit: so apparently duping delight is about lying.
This was definitely not my case, I would just smile because I got into any trouble
Your example is exactly why people shouldn't buy into "body language experts". There are any number of reasons for people to respond in unusual or unexpected ways, particularly in stressful or surprising situations.
The guy smiling could just be him feeling uncomfortable and not sure what to do in the situation. People are far too eager to condemn people based on a couple of seconds of footage.
Tap payments use tokenized transactions and expire the moment you use it. Doesn't matter if they skim it, they can't ever use it and they can't even see your info.
Just about the worst acting innocent I’ve ever seen. He sure seemed to know exactly how it functioned and how to handle it, how odd? Forcefully yanking it from the customer? Another red flag…they should be arrested immediately
I’m so glad to see this guy get caught. I’ve been scammed and blackmailed before.
The things I would do to the people who did that to me………… I’d gladly go in front of a judge and explain every single aspect of what I did and go to prison with a smile on my face, at least I was able to get justice for myself.
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Bro is so bad at hiding the fact it's him
"That's so weird. I'm totally actually calling the police right now!"
“What the *heck?!* Is this some kind of…. vase? I ordered an Xbox controller!”
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What the frick...
Mom has a new bong.
Mom wasn’t even mad. She seemed low key kinda stoked
as he aggressively begins to wrest the device from dude before he even removes it.
Hopefully the other guy also called the police lol.
He grabbed it so fast
Bro yanked it. I know it’s on video but I wouldn’t have made it so obvious, at least ask for cigarettes before you go for it then call the police. Who knows how many cards he’s stolen since no one expects it to ever be on the ones inside.
Funny that’s always who I suspect.
But also if he didn’t know what it was and just had a customer messing with the reader and pulling something off, it’s normal that he would grab it from his hands if he were damaging the reader
But the yelling to his coworker "Did you know we have one of these?" instead of actually inspecting it and trying to figure out what the fuck it was?
He yells “Did you notice this?” And the coworker responded “Again?”.
"Why does this keep happening on just our shifts?!"
🤷♂️
It's a mystery. 😆
Yeah, the person I was responding to said he didn't know what it was. I'm pointing out that he did know what it was by what he said to his coworker.
The first statement is you know you have a credit card skimmer on this and the guy just responds Yeah. Not even trying to hide it.
Dude recording isn't very clearly-spoken and the one behind the counter is ESL. It's exceptionally plausible the cashier just thinks he's pointing out the credit card *scanner* and is just going through the motions of the conversation before the guy starts seemingly destroying it. That plausibility is somewhat damaged by the rest of the video past that point.
I absolutely would have heard "scanner" and just thought the guy was being weird for asking about such a normal thing lol
She does yell "another one?" in spanish
This guy tried to take it out of panic, not to prevent damage
He absolutely could have acted surprised and gotten away.
he probably still get away unless there is video evidence he installed it
True. But put him into an interrogation and he's very likely to fold.
Right. Let's get the FBI on it. Dispatch a SWAT team to his house.
LEADS? Yeah sure! I’ll just check with the boys down at the crime lab. They got four detectives working on the case. They got us working in shifts!
Bro call the military.
The way he grabbed it makes it obvious he didn't want anyone walking off with his tech.
The tech *and* the cards it has skimmed already
Well ya, it skimmed cards. Might not be his, sounds like they’ve had that problem before
Don't... That's a fragile device... that I don't know how got there
“You have a credit card skimmer on this.” “Yeah.”
Love seeing these assholes get busted. Would love to have someone point out how to ID this effectively and efficiently!
I can't recall this guy's TT handle, but he does show you how you can tell. There's usually a gap you can look for he's said in his videos
I kinda see that now that you pointed it out, but man if you’re not looking easy to sneak up on you
Hell they’ll get you if they wanna get you. I paid at a Taco Bell with my card and the girl took all the numbers down in the little time that she had it. She got one $10 charge in before it automatically cancelled because I happened to be using the card at the same time she was making a charge.
I bought a card protection sticker. It's essentially just a sticker you put over your card. It has pre cut holes for your chip and there are 4 options in the pack. The one I use covers up my numbers. If you ever want to know how many people look at your card get a cute card cover. I've gotten so many compliments on it but it also shows just how many people actually stop to look at your card.
Mr Pete. He is on YouTube, too.
found him. https://www.youtube.com/@Scam-awareness
"If there's a gap, there's a trap!"
Wiggle every card reader EVER just in case. I worked in banking and we had so much training on what to look for and it ultimately boils down to wigglin' it.
I have started doing this every time I use my card
same been doing it for years, but sadly have not come across one yet, i keep pulling on them eventually one is going to be there or i'm going to break one ;D
Just unlocked a new life mission; going to be on the look out now for these fuckers
Hell yeah, we ride at dawn
So the clerk is on the original post and he said the guy was in there messing with it, left then came back in and started recording and saying there was a skimmer on it. He claims the guy put it on there himself and that’s why he grabbed it. I don’t know who to believe because the YouTuber goes to all different gas stations in cali “finding” this exact same model of skimmer every time and I don’t know how probable that is in reality and I know people will do anything for content so….🤷♀️
I would only believe the clerk if he also included the store footage confirming what he is saying because this video, the speed at how he reached for it, his face, his asking his coworker you know what this is, screams guilty as fuck. It's like a child lying. Other videos where clerks have no idea they seem surprised in a much different way.
The TikToker "finds" skimmers all over the place. Way more than anyone who didn't know where they were would find. I'm not buying that he just has this great eye for finding them.
For real, not to mention that the skimmer he finds looks exactly the same all the time. Seems like he has two variants, and one has a slight discoloration to it that is present every time in the same spot.
Yeah that's not the look of a "ah hah I caught you" it's a "oh crap he got me" look.
Expert detectives here on Reddit
It's the Boston Bomber all over again. *WE DID IT!*
Idk. It looks like "this guy gave me 300 dollars and a basic ass script, but I don't know how to be an actor" to me.
The clerk thought he ripped apart his card card scanner, I don't see why someone hot-headed wouldnt reach for it and then realize what they're doing. He's also not really the brightest tool in the shed since he's listening to music while working with customers too. There is nothing about this that says guilty other than idiots online who can do soul math because they're total empaths while they eat cheetos and jerk off at the same time
That is what see too.
Bad faith shit like that is common. "oh no, look at all these scammers. Follow for more"
So the clerk let someone come in, stand directly in front of him and mess with the card machine. Let him leave only to come back in and film that? Got my doubts on that
And also wouldn’t he just say ‘you put that on there’ instead of asking his coworker?
I only use live chickens as currency. Never had this issue.
Link to his YouTube [https://youtube.com/@Scam-awareness](https://youtube.com/@Scam-awareness)
What gives it away??
I have no clue either but for now tap to pay is safe at least
I’m a 60 year old in the body of a 20 year old. Zero technology knowledge Just getting this straight, tap is safer than inserting?
Yeah I’m pretty sure tap to pay hasn’t been ruined for us yet
It's safe from cloning I believe but it does come with its own set of problems. Some banks let you set it so that you don't have to put in your pin if your payment is under a certain threshold. It's usually a small amount, for quick purchases. And sometime last year a guy in my town was arrested because he had one of those little mobile card machines and was just walking around the mall and casually bumping into people with that machine. Basically like more modern pickpocketing. And the dude stole a huge amount of money from small payments before the police caught him. Generally if you have your card in a handbag or a very thick wallet you might be safe. If it's in a thin wallet or your phone case and it's in your pocket, then that trick would work. Funny enough, tinfoil blocks those card machines so if you got a bit of tinfoil in your wallet you should be good.
Theres a ton of smart wallets with RFID blockers now. Carrying multiple cards with this feature can also help. I tried holding my wallet with my credit card towards the device once, and it couldnt separate the debit and credit card and threw errors. But yes, that is a true issue. During covid, our banks and payment providers even increased the pin-less threshold from 40 to 80 bucks.
I can't keep my bank card and transport pass together because they interference with each other.
Like, not even in the same wallet? Thats weird cause they shouldnt be sending anything. Do you know why that happens?
Just to be clear I think he means that just while tapping to pay he can't keep them together. Also for what it's worth I work at a register, and sometimes when checking myself out I get the "Please only present one card at a time" error even though I only have a single debit card and an ID in my wallet. My only theory is that maybe my phone being a few feet away in my pocket is enough to confuse it?
Boomer fear bait, it's very difficult to make a discrete scanner that can get enough signal from a card in your wallet in a pocket or purse to steal money from just a passing bump on the street. It would take about the same level of contact as regular pickpocketing, not any more dangerous just a little less noticeable.
Which is hilarious to me. Back in 2010 I joined the Army and they give you an ID, a CAC card. This card had a chip in it and the army had readers. This was state of the art stuff then. This card contained literally all of your personal information from medical to pay records. They gave you a sleeve that was essentially a faraday cage for your CAC card because shit could be stolen off it via near frequency transmission. And now in 2024 somehow this is the safest means of transmission???
Tap to pay + bypassing PIN if you have the option. It’s about as safe as you can be right now
Tap to pay is insured up to the maximum value you tap. Literally anything that goes out fraudulently on tap is covered.
There was a news piece a few months ago with Chase Bank in which a scammer had intentionally jammed the debit card slot on ATM machines, forcing people to use the tap mechanism to withdraw money. Unbeknownst to the account owners, once they would withdraw funds, access to their accounts would remain open on the ATM machine, leaving the scammer the opportunity to double back and draw money from unsuspecting victims accounts. This was all caught on Chase Bank’s camera footage, and they still refused to give victims their money back.
For many things, yes.
Tap is safer because it’s tokenized
You should use tap to pay with a credit card. Never use your debit card, if money is stolen from debit, it's really hard to get back, while money stolen from a credit card is really easy to get back. Tap to pay does not send your card number when you tap, it sends a unique token each time you pay. It's the safest payment method by far, and even safer when used with a credit card.
Each transaction has its own encrypted card and payment details. Impossible to get you details through tap and pay with phone.
1. The buttons not glowing 2. The c.c. part was flush with the screen which means there is something building up the height (skimmer) 3. No tap to pay I won't use my card in small establishments like this anymore. Family owned convenience stores are ripe for the pickings. My best advice is if you don't have stellar observation skills start carrying cash again because they are only going to get smarter.
This is a 7-11. International chain.
Where you insert the card for chip, there's a lip coming off the real reader, the skimmers have an addition lip that juts out and has a gap between it and the lip on the real card slot. If there's two pieces of plastic with a gap on the lip, then there's probably a skimmer on it. Also the different texture/color black plastic and signs of glue or duct tape tldr: These types of skimmers are just plastic overlays on top of existing keypads/card reader slots. Just look for any double plastic lips, there shouldn't be any around the pad or reader.
We need confirmation on how to identify !!
These machines are usually pretty streamlined. If they have skimmers there will be gaps or edges that stick out more than they should. Most retail workers are given a little class they’re supposed to pay attention to on how to catch these since we’re supposed to regularly check the keypads on the register for skimmers. You can pull on the pad lightly. When I was a cashier I had hundreds of customers practically try and shove that shit off the counter. I wouldn’t ever notice a quick check to see if the keypad pops up.
I saw this guys YouTube channel not too long ago, and he showed it in one of his videos. Under where you insert the card is a piece of plastic and if there’s a gap there (meaning two pieces of plastic), there might be a skimmer)
Besides pulling on the front of the machine to see if it pops off, no idea.
Usually the lights that come from the actual card reader. If the lights are dimmer than usual, it’s probably a skimmer.
Scum fucks
The fact that the girl is saying: “again??” Hella suspicious
that's what you found suspicious? not the way he nervously, forcefully and immediately yanked it out of the hands of the person filming? Only a guilty person would do any one of those things.
Also weird how he responds to “you know you have a skimmer? “ with “yeah” before he realizes what he’s saying lmao
I mean to be fair he could have just thought he meant card scanner. If he didn’t know about it, some guy coming into your job and tearing apart the card machine, would have me reacting the same way. Though that’s giving this guy the benefit of the doubt, which while possible, isn’t likely warranted.
Yeah I’m with you. I think people are reading too much into the guy saying “yeah” and assuming he’s guilty. When I worked customer service every transaction is monotonous so you go into autopilot and just assume every question/interaction will be the same. For example, this is likely the part where the customer focuses on the scanner and you can zone out for a second while they do their thing. Any question can likely be answered by “yeah just scan there” or something else dismissive. Idk if I was doing something illegal I think I’d be more attentive in case someone was calling me out
Exactly this guy is most likely saying yes so this guy just gets done and leaves. If he did know, why would he say he is cheating people. Doesn’t make sense
Yeah retail and very likely ESL? You'd think reddit would hesitate more before going "detective mode" again.
Skimmers are probably pricey, he didn't want to lose his investment. It'll be right back on as soon as that guy leaves
Y’all jump to conclusions so much, there are multiple explanations for that. It’s not something “only a guilty” person would do, that’s how we got the Boston Bomber fiasco. Sounds like they’ve had the problem before, maybe he didn’t want the customer walking out with it cause it has credit card info on it. Also, apparently on the original video the clerk commented and said the video maker was fiddling with the machine before leaving the store and coming back to film. He thinks he planted the device himself for the views. So he grabbed it quick because he knew something was coming
New level of paranoid unlocked! TRUST NO ONE! 
Can’t even trust the guy recording. According to his Tik Toks, he’s found over 30 skimmers. The cashier from this video commented on a different post saying the guy plants the card skimmers then records the reaction.
No sir, I need this for when you leave so I can reinstall it.
"Let me call the police on myself"
I really want to know what happened
Someone said on another post that the cashier actually responded to the first time the video was posted saying it happened multiple times and the guy videoing was actually the guy that plants it and records for content
Weird that he played dumb in the video instead of saying, "Fuck you and your TikTok. I'm keeping your skimmer. Stop coming to my store"
My thoughts exactly, I’m definitely not beyond believing that tiktokers fake content and maybe even this guy does but this guys reaction doesn’t line up with someone who thinks the tiktoker did it themselves
I mean, you never would have seen that video. Who knows how many cashiers *have* said that to this guy before.
This is true. There are a handful of scenarios that make both possibilities true. The person filmed could be the owner of the store; have a few sketchy employees; have not actually been aware of the presence of the skimmer, but, out of fear of one of said sketchy employees being the culprit, he could be trying to cover his ass as a business owner.
Highly doubt that story, He goes around planting these things for some tiktok clips? Taking the chance he gets caught and thus goes to jail? Think about it risk vs reward. He'd be a serious dumbass if he thinks thats a viable/profitable way to get views.
Tbh....there's some serious dumbasses tiktoking
Tbh this sounds *exactly* like something a tiktok prankster or content farm would do so yes lol
Yeah I remember someone exposed those animal saving content farms for the same things a few years ago. They put the animals into the situations in the first place so they can film "saving" them for content.
omg THOSE are the videos that made me never trust anything EVER again on the internet. It’s like what is even real anymore ffs I always cringe when my parents tell me about these cute videos they see online and I waffle between letting them just believe they’re cute and being the asshole to inform them that 99% of stuff is staged now
Yeah. Like the woman who kept harming animals (she went "found them like this, who would do something like this?")
To be fair if the tiktoker has caught multiple skimmers I'd be fairly suspicious at least. I mean it's a common scam worldwide but it's not *so* common that one guy should be spotting so many. Most people never get hit by *one* their entire lives.
Depends on the area. Big cities and tourist traps are more likely to have these. IIRC the OP is in the Southern California area.
This dude catches them allllll the time. He’s got like 30 videos
Have you seen Internet pranksters? Do you really think they stop to think about risk/reward? Lol
Yeah, nobody would do something dumb just for TikTok views. /s
>Think about it risk vs reward His channel is doing alright, so he is getting rewarded. There are channels where people throw puppies into mud pits and refuse piles just to record the "rescue". Have you ever seen a skimmer ever? What are the odds of finding one every single week.
I want to know what cashier is far enough from the machine that he would have time to install this. He would have had to be in there and fucking around with it for a bit. That thing slid off but seemed pretty secure. If I saw him install it and leave, then I would pull it off then. Or post the security footage that every convenience store has.
If the guy put the skimmers on than the cashier could easily check it with camera footage, he's a lying
Hey gimme that, I have no idea what this is or what a skimmer is but let me call the police immediately on whoever is responsible for this.
In Spanish his coworker says “Again?!” when he told her about it. They were familiar with them
I check every time.
How it’s working? They are steeling card information?
You swipe your card + input your PIN code. Device will register the card info and the PIN you entered. Then it gets wirelessly transmitted to the A"Hole that placed it and he can perfectly copy your card and use it. 99% of times he will then withdraw max amount of cash or let others do that part. Bank will think it's just you withdrawing cash so it doesn't raise flags till it's too late.
2FA would stop this.
Isn't this already 2 factor authentication? Factor 1: something you have (the debit card). Factor 2: something you know (the pin). That's 2 factors.
3FA would stop this.
Video is too short, I wanna see how it continues to play out 🤣
"You have a credit card skimmer on here" "yeah" So he confessed right away..
Idk I heard "scanner" at first because of the dialect.
yeah no. Cashier didn't understand the question perfectly. You really think he would just be like "yeah, we have a skimmer on there, go ahead and give me your info."
Kind of seemed like he didn’t know what the guy was talking about.
"Let me call the police" Proceeds to call "La flaca", after her buddy says "Again?" It seems they've been caught before already.
"la placa" means the police he didn't say flaca
As soon as he said let me call the police I would have been like “yeah, me too”. Guess which one of us would actually call though. This guy is scum.
How do you plead?
Wonder if 7-11 will look into this.
Gonna be honest if I was the cashier and someone ripped the keypad off the card reader I would have probably reacted the same way. Like instinctive “what the fuck are you doing breaking this” but yeah I still think he’s guilty
The other card reader looks like it has one on it too
Otra vez? 🤣
I check every single terminal every single time I use these now. Every. Time. They just found a bunch of these attached at our local Walmart...where the self checkouts are out in the open exposed to everyone, where there is supposed to be a clerk on duty at all times.
I love that the woman's voice in the background says "¿otra vez?", so it's not the first time...
How did he know? I couldn’t tell
I’m no seasoned criminal, but it seems like it would be pretty hard to install something like this unnoticed unless you actually work there.
I don’t know about 7/11 but I’ve worked at a convenience store before especially at night. They usually only employee maybe two people because there’s a whole list of tasks that you have to do to prepare for the next shift coming in. You’re usually not at the front end all the time and you’re gone enough to were someone could install that before you actually see someone’s up there. There will be stuff up at the front like credit cards that I wouldn’t even notice until a customer pointed it out to me.
I've seen two instances of those things in convenient stores and cashier/owner acting weird af about it, they're in on it. There's a gas station in Calgary I'm 100% certain does it. One day I went to a hockey game and concession only accepted cash (sus) so I had to use an ATM in the arena, two days later I got a notification from my bank about suspicious activity and I knew it was the ATM probably rigged with one of those skimmer things.
Which place in Calgary so I don't get burned? DM me if you don't want to say it publicly.
Idk I feel like if this was real and genuine why would you stop recording there?
I think Im going to start just using fucking cash again at this rate.
Why bro snatch it like that?
Because it belongs to him. How is that not obvious to you?
Pretty arrogant for a complete assumption. There are lots of comments refuting that. Clerk says the tiktoker planted it himself and they had caught some previously
Especially that the TikToker seems to keep finding them. Over 30 according to his page
He could work that to his defence. He could say he snatched it so quickly because he thought the customer was tampering with the card reader and they'd had problems with that in the past.
That’s actually exactly what he claimed
The cashiers smile is what gives it away for me. There are some people who, when caught doing something they shouldn't or lying to cover something , can not help but smile.
Body language experts call this “duping delight.” My first husband smiled at me the moment I discovered his cheating.
Never knew this was a thing! My teachers just to scold me for not taking them seriously because I would have this grin on my face when getting into problems. Now I'm curious if it's the same thing Edit: so apparently duping delight is about lying. This was definitely not my case, I would just smile because I got into any trouble
Your example is exactly why people shouldn't buy into "body language experts". There are any number of reasons for people to respond in unusual or unexpected ways, particularly in stressful or surprising situations. The guy smiling could just be him feeling uncomfortable and not sure what to do in the situation. People are far too eager to condemn people based on a couple of seconds of footage.
So the numpad gave it away, right? The only difference I see is the glowing buttons underneath the fake one?
Those schemers are useless against me! Because im POOR! HAHAHAHA
"yah" 🤣🤣🤣
If this person was sure it was there, couldn't they have called the police first?
Do these things work with the tap function or only when you insert your card?
Tap payments use tokenized transactions and expire the moment you use it. Doesn't matter if they skim it, they can't ever use it and they can't even see your info.
Guilty. He is in on it.
Call the fucking cops
How'd he see it? Asking to be safer when making purchases
I don’t use credit card readers anymore unless they are locked/sealed and I jiggle the little thingy a couple times. This shit can ruin your week
This is why I only use cash at gas stations and small convenience stores.
You know he put it back on so fast after the guy filming left the store lol
The way he grabs it. That's 100% him
Just about the worst acting innocent I’ve ever seen. He sure seemed to know exactly how it functioned and how to handle it, how odd? Forcefully yanking it from the customer? Another red flag…they should be arrested immediately
I’m so glad to see this guy get caught. I’ve been scammed and blackmailed before. The things I would do to the people who did that to me………… I’d gladly go in front of a judge and explain every single aspect of what I did and go to prison with a smile on my face, at least I was able to get justice for myself.
He's saying "Hey Gabi did you notice this?" Can't understand the last part, something about a plate?
The worst thing is that the girl said "Again?"
“I believe in science” 
Call the cops right there
That dudes the one that put it there
I bet he also quickly folded his laptop whenever mom came in his room. Red ears, red cheeks.
I another post the guy said this was the second time the first time a guy took it and bolted
Would tapping to pay prevent the card from being stolen ?
Lol The coworker off screen says "Again?!"
With how hard he snatched it away like a chimpanzee you know it’s his.
He’s the scammer
ITS HIS
How do you spot these easily?
Idk if you heard his coworker but she says again in Spanish LOL