Credit card skimmers found at High Point Walmart stores

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An influx of EBT fraud reports led High Point Police to open an investigation into card skimmers at two Triad Walmart stores.

So far, investigators have found two card skimmers.

One at the Walmart on North Main Street and another at the Walmart on South Main Street.

“This is something that goes on across the country. Right now it has hit High Point for at least the month of December,” said Lt. Kim Rison with the High Point Police Department.

Rison says an employee at the North Main Walmart spotted the first skimmer.

“These things are literally just like a face plate overlay. They are fairly thin plastic and they just snap over. They look just like the device itself,” said Lt. Rison.

Most credit or debit cards have a chip that creates a one-time code used to process payments instead of saving the actual card number.

However, North Carolina EBT cards do not have a chip.

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