BANGOR, Maine — Police are looking for a man who is using credit cards that he found earlier this month. On Monday they released surveillance camera images of him trying to use one of them, Sgt. Paul Edwards said.
“Two of the transactions the suspect attempted were captured on still photographs from the Court Street Market and an ATM machine in Bangor,” Edwards said.
The man is described as muscular or stocky with a brown goatee. He was seen inside the store at about 11:50 a.m. May 1 wearing a blue hat with a blue hoodie. In the ATM image, captured about 3½ hours later, he is wearing a black New Balance jacket with a hood that is up.
The owner of the lost credit cards, a 44-year-old Bangor woman, told police that she lost a bundle of bank cards somewhere between her home and downtown on May 1 and didn’t immediately report the cards missing “in hopes she had misplaced them,” Edwards said.
However, on May 4 she “realized that one the cards was used three times for cash withdrawals, twice successfully,” the sergeant said.
Once she discovered the missing money, she called police. Officer Jason Stuart is handling the investigation.
Those with information about the identify of the person in the images are urged to contact Stuart by emailing jason.stuart@bangormaine.gov or calling the Bangor Police Department at 947-7382. The department’s anonymous tip line can be reached by pressing extension 6. (Nok-Noi Ricker, BDN)
You can’t use an ATM without a passcode.
Unless the man using the cards has ESP or a code-breaking computer, she must have lost the bundle of cards with at least one passcode in that bundle.
You’d think if that was the case she would have reported it earlier.
Dont you need a pin for cash withdrawals???
why doesn’t she call and report it stole and order a new one?
well my grandmother kept her pin code in her checking book cover so she wouldnt forget it! I have now made her do something else but maybe this woman had her pin code in her wallet or whatever. *dont keep passcode in with cards!*
Jaymee, I would like to make a suggestion that might help you and grandma. If your grandmother cannot, like me, remember numbers, she might remember visual patterns. The number pad for atms (and phones) are a grid 3×3 with the 0 below that grid in the center. That is a square pattern with the 0 at the bottom center. Suggest to her that she use a pattern she can remeber, such as: 1538, which is a ‘V’ with the 8 at the bottom of the V. Look at your phone: see what I mean. Or maybe 1239 or possibly 321 7, or 1397. Check on your phone these few numbers I have shown you and understand them as a pattern, not as numbers. Some folks do better remembering patterns. Hope this might help her as well as some others who read this. Punch a pattern ~ Don’t punch a number.
Now THAT”S an interesting idea! Clever.
Good info.
I will try it next time I come across some credit cards.
Might be easy money.
That is an awesome idea! Too bad I didnt think of it! lol thank you
Yes, I am going to partially blame the places this man used the card – the card has got to have the woman’s name on it – I have been asked to show ID when using my husband’s card for whatever reason when the counter persons have to run it – that should have been a flag for someone, unless it’s an afixed machine on the counter. ATM, nothing you can do, but this man probably knows the woman or her passcode. Change the rules where you don’t have to put in a passcode for items under $25 in these local stores – you should always have to put in a passcode for a debit card.
Really? Doesn’t all the blame belong to the THIEF? C’mon man.
Not all, because we have made it easy for thieves to utilize the items they have stolen. If there were not minimum purchase for debit cards, they couldn’t be used without the code(in this case if he had the code, doesn’t matter). Why is it Christmas the only time when cashiers look at your debit or credit card and match the signature to the card or the name on the card? If it’s that important that time of the year, it should be all year long. I was told recently I cannot limit my debit card purchases to only sales in the US – why not -lessen the chance of someone stealing my numbers and purchasing items in Mexico or wherever. We make it too easy for thieves to steal and use our items, plain and simple.