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11/20/2009
The RCMP's Commercial Crime Division is talking with municipal police forces across the Lower Mainland about a massive debit card scam that is compromising customers banking info.
CKNW has been hearing from victims for over a month and has reported on it before but there was no ongoing police investigation....nor would any of the banks who's customers had been targetted provide any information beyond general advice about how to protect your pin number.
Sgt. Peter Thiessen now says thousands of people have likely been victimized, but he won't say which financial institutions or businesses have been affected.
CKNW heard from one victim who says she was told by her Van City branch manager that upwards of 200 of their customers had their pin numbers comprimised in the Abbotsford area.
We also heard from a number of victims who all shopped at a Burnaby Safeway.
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