Surveillance video shows the man entering the MGM restaurant about 8:30 p.m. Sunday and placing an order, before grabbing the machine when no one was looking.
The owners of a Nanaimo restaurant are out at least $500 after a customer made off with their debit machine.
He had placed an order for beer and poutine, and made his move when staff was in the kitchen, said the restaurant’s Kevin Samaroo.Nanaimo RCMP Const. Gary O’Brien said it’s believed the man was trying to place a credit-skimming device in the restaurant, but for some reason he didn’t. Samaroo said the man tried to put the machine back after he was finished with it but the restaurant had closed.The man was also seen returning later in the evening, presumably to tap into the restaurant’s network and take more money, Samaroo said.
At that point, they can download the data from the fake machine and put it into a program on a laptop, O’Brien said.
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