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Follow KDKA-TV : Facebook | Twitter PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Your cellphone could be the key to spotting a credit card skimmer at a gas pump or ATM. Frank Pollock spends his days inspecting gas pumps making sure you are not getting ripped off. In more recent times as the Chief Inspector for the Allegheny County Bureau of Weights and Measures he’s not just looking at gas quantities . “We look for skimmers every day when we look at gas pumps,” Pollock says. Skimmers have become the most dominant tool in the credit card thieves ’ tool bag. Some attach as overlays over the gas pump, ATM, or video rental box , intercepting your information as you swipe. Pollock says check for that type of skimmer by grabbing the slot with your fingers and “shake it a little bit make sure it’s straight. If it’s a little loose, if you have some suspicions, go and talk to the manager. “ Others require the thief to pop open the gas pump and install them inside. Pollock says, “it connects to the back of the credi...

Johnson Chrome was a notorious big spender with a taste for bottle service , bespoke suits and $10,000 shoes. The source of his wealth? A sophisticated identity theft scheme that may have conned Torontonians out of millions. The untold story of the city’s most wanted fraudster Photographs: All portraits via Facebook; background by iStock T he fraudster who called himself Johnson Chrome liked to sit on a bench at the intersection of Hazelton and Yorkville, smoking a Montecristo Edmundo robusto and talking about fashion, cars and cigars to anyone who’d listen. He was charming and handsome, with a neatly trimmed beard , a shaved head and perfect teeth. The perch placed him at the centre of the rarefied universe he’d come to inhabit. His condo, in the former Four Seasons hotel, was steps to the west, and he parked his black Jaguar at the Hazelton Hotel opposite . His gym, the sleek Equinox, was a minute’s walk northwest; his preferred cigar shop , La Casa del Habano , was to the sout...