Can't stress it enough, you ALWAYS have to check your ATM machine

Dateline Kearny: Two men were arrested for installing a skimming device, a small add-on to an ATM machine that allows thieves and lowlives to collect your account info AND PIN number.

Worthless human beings Alejandro Gonzalez-Scott, of Lyndhurst, and David Herrera-Rodas, of Newark were caught Aug. 10 at a QuikChek at Kearny and Bergen Avenues after someone alerted police who simply set up surveillance on the ATM and waited for the two idiots to show back up an arrest them. The both face multiple fraud charges.

Gotta be careful out there friends, check those ATMs before you put your card in, if it looks wrong, find another.

Hey Jersey City, let's see what we can't do to boycott the Phebe Nightclub and Restaurant

The owner of Phebe Nightclub and Restaurant, Kenny Frias, has some interesting ideas about how one fits into a community owning a business and all. Frias was arrested for paying off local gas station attendants (Another reason to let Garden Staters pump their own gas right there) to use credit card skimmers wherein Frias would allegedly take a cut of your hard earned do-re-mi when you filled up. What did he do with this money he allegedly stole? Paid some lackeys to go buy booze around the state so he could sell it at, say it together, Phebe Nightclub and Restaurant.

Frias and his accomplices bought goods, including alcohol, at stores around the state, the prosecutor said in statement. He sold the booze at his business, Phebe Nightclub and Restaurant.

Investigators found a credit card reader and writer device, fraudulent credit cards, bogus identification and more than $75,000 after executing search warrants at Frias’ home and club, according to Molinelli.

Super duper! And because we want to give credit where credit is due:

Frias’ girlfriend, Jeanessa Torres, 25, of Clifton, was also arrested and charged with possession of an unlawful weapon for having a knife, authorities said. She was being held at the Bergen County Jail on $2,500 bail.

If you think anything looked hinkey on one of your credit statements or gas suddenly seemed to cost an awful lot one day maybe you should call the Bergen County prosecutor’s office at 201-226-5532 or Glen Rock police at 201-652-3800.

All set, that'll be ah, ninety four dollars

A very important consumer alert, local Hoboken bank ATM has been hit with a 'skimmer'

If you were at the downtown Hoboken Sovereign Bank, and used their ATM machine, you may have been a victim of a 'skimming' machine, which slides into the ATM card slot and captures your account and PIN information. The 'skimmer' doesn't look all that different from a regular ATM slot. Bank officials have said two men dressed as technicians set up the dummy card slot on September 10, September 17 and October 3rd. Account info was stolen and used to make withdrawals in New York City from at least 30 customers totaling $19,000.

Hoboken Sovereign Bank did not tell NJ.com how they planned to protect their customers info going forward or what they were willing to do for victims who had their information stolen at the branch. Since bank officials were aware of these thieves in their lobby doing this THREE times on security cameras, and have said as much, You'd HOPE they'd want to help you with some kind of credit monitoring or other protection. You'd hope.

Call the bank at (201) 418-7900 if you think you were a victim. If you used that ATM, check your statements.