You’ve likely read warnings about credit card skimmers found on gasoline pumps before. A woman says she discovered a scam that she never expected, hidden in plain sight inside a busy convenience store near Medical City McKinney.
The victim, Nyshje Rattler, recorded a video of her discovery and shared it on social media.
“I’ve always heard of it happening at the gas pumps. I always tug on it, but I’ve never heard of it happening inside a store,” said Rattler. “I didn’t think it would happen in McKinney of all places.”
NBC 5 News Nyshje Rattler
Her ordeal began Wednesday when she tried to buy a bag of chips at the 7-Eleven near her home.
“They said: You don’t have the money. And I said: Excuse me,” she recalled.
A call to her bank revealed her account had been ‘wiped clean.’
“They said: $300 was spent at Walmart in Houston. $200 at a Walmart in Katy. $187 at a Walmart in Houston. I was like: That’s not me,” said Rattler.
She thought back to the only purchase she did make Monday night at the 7-Eleven along Medical Center Drive where she makes small purchases about five times a week.
“He [the cashier] was obsessive about how I placed the pen down so I thought that was weird,” she said. “I kept replaying it in my head.”
She remembered a case out of Los Angeles of a credit card skimmer and decided to return to the store to inspect both card…
