Skimmers, scammers and crypto ATM rackets: Ways to avoid rising fraud in New Hampshire

By: CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Outlets: Concord Monitor

Published: August 1, 2026

Words: 1,626

Last Updated: 2 days, 5 hours ago


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In February, Concord Police arrested a Romanian man in the Hannaford parking lot. Inside his car, they found hundreds of cloned debit cards, piles of cash and little machines used to skim access data from card machine readers.

Teofil Bortos, who faced felony charges for forgery and identity fraud, had on multiple occasions gone into the store and bought something small, like a bottle of water. He then used the cashback feature on …

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