Breaking: Flatbush Skimming Attack Thwarted, Perps Arrested Red-Handed

By FrumNews.com

Flatbush — Two suspects behind the massive EBT (food stamps) and credit card skimming scheme in Brooklyn, who installed skimming devices on multiple credit card machines at large supermarkets in New York, were finally arrested Tuesday.

The perpetrators scammed hundreds of people across Brooklyn, and were arrested this afternoon after they were caught red-handed by Flatbush Shmira removing a skimming device at Moisha’s Kosher Supermarket on Avenue M in Flatbush.

Thanks to the incredible teamwork of Boro Park Shmira, Flatbush Shmira and the store management at Moisha’s Kosher Supermarket, the scammers were taken into police custody.

Recently, there is a spike in skimming attacks by kosher grocery stores and supermarkets in the frum communities of Williamsburg, Boro Park, Crown Heights and Flatbush. As well by Monsey and Rockland County in Upstate NY.

The skimmer devices are being placed by outsiders, this is a city-wide issue, happening all over New York City and NY State part of a larger sophisticated organized-crime ring that steal funds from SNAP food stamps benefits and obtaining credit card details by placing skimmers at stores.

Two weeks ago, a skimming attempt was stopped at the nearby Pomegranate Supermarket on Coney Island Ave in Flatbush, due to the swift and alert action of Pomegranate management, Baruch Hashem, no one was scammed in the incident.

These two perpetrators arrested today are suspected of placing skimmers in the four largest Brooklyn frum kehillas of Boro Park, Crown Heights, Williamsburg and Flatbush.

FrumNews.com has been informed, that although this skimming scam is mostly happening at hundreds of local Brooklyn bodegas. Kosher grocery stores and supermarkets in Brooklyn are having their frum managers check almost daily the devices to make sure no skimmers are being placed.

Surveillance footage of the perpetrators swiftly and smoothly retrieving the skimming devices at Moisha’s Kosher Supermarket: pic.twitter.com/JhOc5KnasO

— FrumNews.com (@Frum_News) May 22, 2024