Police probing a cashpoint scam in which a skimming device was found in an ATM have sent the device off for testing.
The ATM machine outside Lloyds TSB at Marton Shops, in Stokesley Road, was targeted by scammers back in December.
A skimming device was found in the cash machine and it was taped off by police while investigations were carried out.
No arrests have been made in connection with the scam and the device has been sent off for chemical analysis and finger printing.
The device was found in the machine at about 9.45pm on December 18 after a member of the public reported it to police.
Cleveland Police made an appeal to the public asking for anyone who had used the machine to come forward.
A spokeswoman said: “No victims have come forward so it would appear that the device was found quite soon after it was installed. The device has been sent for chemical analysis and finger printing.”
A worker at Johnson’s Dry Cleaners, next door to the bank, told the Gazette her brother’s card was swallowed by the same machine about three weeks before the device was found.
“He saw two men standing nearby looking suspicious,” she said.
“They took his card then used it twice in Asda then it was used again a few hours later to buy petrol in London.
“They took £350 altogether.”
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