The defendant pleaded no contest to felony attempted identity theft on Wednesday.
BELMONT – A 30-year-old Seattle man has been sentenced to three months in San Mateo County jail for installing a card skimmer and a camera at an ATM in Belmont, prosecutors said.
Nicolae Diaconu on Wednesday pleaded no contest to felony attempted identity theft, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office. Judge Sean Dabel placed him on two years of supervised probation on the condition he serves 90 days in jail. On Dec. 30, Diaconu and an unidentified accomplice inserted a skimmer into the card slot of a Bank of America ATM on Ralston Avenue and set up a camera on an adjacent post, prosecutors said.When installed on ATMs, point-of-sale terminals or fuel pumps,or record the personal identification numbers of cardholders, according to the FBI. Criminals use the data to create fake cards and then steal from victims’ accounts.
Prosecutors said officers were keeping tabs on the ATM when Diaconu returned the following day to retrieve the camera and the skimmer. He tried to run from the officers when they appeared, but he was caught and arrested.
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