What might you get when your ATM surveillance videos show one person spending hours at your ATM at o-dark-thirty and subsequently finding several captured phone cards in the machine? In Port St. Lucie, FL they found Johnathen Sardone charged with over 400 counts of ATM fraud. It appears he was using European phone cards to make 200 withdrawals between August 26 and August 28. He reportedly stole more than $20,000 from credit card holders in London. There are $100 limitations per transaction on these foreign accounts which is why it was taking so long.

After bank employees put two and two together the police were contacted. The area was canvased with the ATM photos and Sardone was recognized.

Police believe Sardone likely used a skimming device to capture information from credit cards and then used software to transfer that information onto the magnetic strips on phone cards. Room keys from hotels are another form of an access device that have been used to perpetrate such crimes.