Fraudsters who used so-called 'skimming' techniques to swipe the card details of consumers using two ATMs in the suburbs of Auckland, NZ, have stolen some NZ$49,000 from accounts using cash machines in Toronto, Canada.
The initial skimming offences took place in March 2006 at two Bank of New Zealand cash machines in Auckland. Now officials from the bank are investigating a series of transactions in Canada where up to NZ$49,000 may have been stolen from customer accounts.
We have been advised of suspect transactions on a small number of Bank of New Zealand customer accounts which suggest that fraudulent transactions were conducted offshore, said Shona Bishop, BNZ general manager marketing and business development in comments reported by New Zealand’s Times Online Newspapers.
Bank of New Zealand is now rolling out anti-skimming technology across its network of ATMs in response to the incidents.