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An employee of the Chevron gas station at 2950 Woodside Road in Woodside discovered three card-skimming devices at three gas pump terminals on Monday (Aug. 26), according to the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office.
A skimming device can read data from a credit or debit card and allow the installer to withdraw money from an account or make fraudulent charges on the account.
It is unknown how long the devices were in place prior to Monday’s discovery, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
Sheriff’s investigators are investigating the case and asking that anyone with information regarding the crime call the office’s detective bureau at 650-599-1536 or its anonymous tip line at 800-547-2700.
Can we sue Chevron for our financial losses?
resident,
It is doubtful you will have any losses. Banks and credit Card companies generally protect the consumer from those. However if you bought gas at that Chevron location in the last week you should check your accounts and credit card statements (especially the one you used to purchase gas) and see if there is any unrecognized activity. That is on you. As for the liability of Chevron I believe you would need to prove that they were either responsible for attaching the skimmers or negligent in detecting them. As it was an employee that found and reported them, it is unlikely.
I hope the sheriffs are really “interested” in picking up the fingerprints off of these devices.
It really doesn’t matter because once they are arrested they go before the judge and they’re released again. It’s called our California catch and release program
I buy gas there all the time. Do they have cameras? When a local gas station got hit by skimmers, it was easy to find the culprits due to their cameras. I am at risk as I filled both my car and my truck at the Woodside gas station last week.