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Gina Gheorghe, 30, was sentenced in federal court on Wednesday to 36 months in prison for her part in an ATM skimming scheme carried out in Fairfield County. Norwalk Police assisted the Connecticut Financial Crimes Task Force in the investigation and apprehension of Gheroghe.
According to reports, Gheorghe and her associates installed skimming devises on ATM machines at Bank of America branches across the county. The devices captured the information encoded on the magnetic strips when customers swiped their ATM cards. The group also installed cameras that allowed them to read the peoples pin numbers when they used the cards. They used this information to create fraudulent ATM cards that they used to drain peoples bank accounts.
Arrested in 2009 by the Norwalk Police, Gheorghe pled guilty in February of this year to one count of bank fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. United States District Judge Mark Kravitz imposed a 12-month sentence for the bank fraud charges. The aggravated identify theft charges carry a mandatory two-year consecutive sentence.
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