Skimming device found in supermarket ATM

GARDAÍ in Co Kerry may have averted a major, pre-Christmas criminal scam by removing a skimming device from an ATM machine in Killarney yesterday.

An alert customer’s suspicions were aroused when he saw that his card had been returning slower than usual from the AIB machine on the wall of the Tesco supermarket, Beech Road, at about 1.45pm.

A garda spokesman described the device in the form of a false front to the machine as “very sophisticated”.