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Minor, parents accused of card skimming scheme

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January 24, 2025

Police have arrested a 17 year old and his parents Florin Turtulea and Irina Donica for allegedly running an ATM skimming scheme in Utah. Police say this impacted more than 900 people who had their data stolen from ATMs, mostly at 7-Eleven locations, according to a report by Fox 13.

"Our fraud investigators noticed kind of an uptick in some of our members reporting ATM fraud," Amanda Morton, VP of relationship development at Cyprus Credit Union, said in the report. "That triggered them to do a little bit of investigative work where they started pulling ATM footage and uncovered that it was the same male."

Investigators claim that there were eight times that the suspects used skimmed data to withdraw money from ATMs in Salt Lake City totaling $2,300. When police raised the suspects home, they found stolen items and more than $40,000.