Five arrested in cash machine probe at Tesco

The ATM cash machines at Tesco Inshes.

Five men have been arrested following the discovery at the weekend of a card skimming device fitted to a bank machine at an Inverness supermarket

The discovery was made on Saturday at the Tesco supermarket at Inshes.

These devices are used to clone people’s card details allowing the criminals to withdraw money from their accounts using their pin code which they usually obtain by standing nearby and watching people enter it on the machine’s keypad.

They have also been known to attach small cameras to the machine in an attempt to obtain people’s pin numbers.

Police are urging cash machine customers in the city to be vigilant following the latest incident.

Customers are advised to look carefully at the machine before using it and if it looks like it has been tampered with or altered in any way to report it immediately. People should also keep their hand over the keypad so that anyone standing nearby or using a camera cannot see them enter the number.

Officers would like to hear from anyone who was in the area of the Tescos Supermarket during Saturday 19 March 2011 and may have seen anyone acting suspiciously around the area of the cash machine.

Anyone with information is urged to contact Police on 0845 600 5703 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.