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Lately, our local news has numerous stories of people illegally placing "skimmers" in credit card readers at Gas Stations to steal credit card numbers (or worse-to drain the bank accounts of those using debit cards). what do you think the penalty should be?
I believe any such action should be at minimum a felony offense and since credit card fraud -due to "interstate commerce" can be a federal offense, skimming should be as well with a point added to the offense level for each card hacked meaning the penalty could be in the 300 month range if someone skims several dozen cards.
I think its time to really crush people who do this sort of stuff and give them really hard time
One of my cards was skimmed once. They charged more than 10k on that card. My proposed solution wouldn't be legal or constitutional so I went with "Option 1 and 3 with full restitution". My proposed solution would be more satisfying.