Another Bulgarian caught for ATM theft

[geovalin]

Bun Sengkong

Police in Siem Reap are on the lookout for what they suspect is a large group of ATM fraudsters following the arrest of another foreigner accused of attaching “skimming” equipment to ATMs in order to steal customers’ credit card information, police said yesterday. Authorities allegedly spotted Bulgarian national Tsvetozar Nikolaev Stoyanov, 28, tampering with a cash machine in front of Siem Reap’s provincial hospital, according to Pheng Chenda Rath, chief of Siem Reap minor crimes police, who said Stoyanov claimed to have been working with an unnamed German.

The police had been tipped off by ABA Bank, which has a team in place to remotely monitor CCTV feeds from its ATMs. Deputy chief of Siem Reap minor crimes police Hok Bunhav said he and his colleagues “suspect that [stoyanov] is part of a bigger group that breaks into smaller groups”.

read more: http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/another-bulgarian-caught-atm-theft

[Lex Talionis]

Are there banks in Cambodia that have ATMs inside the lobby (which would mean they are locked up at night)? I haven't found any yet (in Phnom Penh) which seems odd.

Seems to me that would be the safest and easiest way to prevent skimming.