Epsom Guardian
Epsom Guardian: "Gormless gang�s ATM scam caught on camera
By Helen Crane
A bungling thief who masterminded a plot to defraud cashpoint customers by installing a camera in an ATM machine has been jailed for two-and-a-half years.
Steven Ricketts was snared by police when a quick-thinking member of the public raised the alarm after spotting the would-be fraudster acting suspiciously by the HSBC bank machine in Epsom High Street.
The scam, the first of its type in the area, was also recorded by the town's CCTV system at around 5.30am on July 24 last year. Video footage captured Ricketts drilling into the cash point.
Ricketts, 27, plotted with two accomplices to install a camera and transmitter to film people keying in pin numbers as they withdrew cash. The video signal would then be transmitted to a receiver located in a nearby parked van to be recorded so they could use customers' pin numbers to steal their money"
By Helen Crane
A bungling thief who masterminded a plot to defraud cashpoint customers by installing a camera in an ATM machine has been jailed for two-and-a-half years.
Steven Ricketts was snared by police when a quick-thinking member of the public raised the alarm after spotting the would-be fraudster acting suspiciously by the HSBC bank machine in Epsom High Street.
The scam, the first of its type in the area, was also recorded by the town's CCTV system at around 5.30am on July 24 last year. Video footage captured Ricketts drilling into the cash point.
Ricketts, 27, plotted with two accomplices to install a camera and transmitter to film people keying in pin numbers as they withdrew cash. The video signal would then be transmitted to a receiver located in a nearby parked van to be recorded so they could use customers' pin numbers to steal their money"
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