ATM scammer wanted

Posted May 9, 2012 3:42 pm.

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Calgary police are looking for the man they believe may have tampered with some Automatic Teller Machines in Calgary.

It’s also alleged he took debit/credit card information and used that information in fraudulent financial transaction attempts in Alberta as well as B.C.

Canada-wide warrants are out for 28-year-old Robert Dorin Dragoescu for three charges of possessing instruments for skimming credit card data, and three counts of possessing instruments of credit card forgery.

He came to Canada weeks ago and is travelling around, he is not a Canadian citizen and of Romanian descent.

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