Alleged Credit Card Skimmers Arraigned

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November 16, 2011, 3:00 pm

Alleged Credit Card Skimmers Arraigned

The Post reports that a pair of Bulgarian nationals accused of getting bank account information from 1,500 unwitting debit card users (and bilking them out of $300,000) pleaded not guilty today. According to prosecutors, Dimitar Stamatov, a limo driver, and Iordan Ivanov, a mechanic, set up pinhole cameras and skimming devices at four Chase bank ATMs around Union Square and Astor Place.

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