NJ Lakehurst Gas Station Clerk Arrested After Stealing Customer Info And Making Fake Purchases

In May 2024, Sukhchain Singh — a gas station clerk at Fuel 4, located at 99 Route 70 in Lakehurst, Ocean County, New Jersey — was arrested and charged with fraudulent use of a credit card, theft, and five civil counts of fraud following a joint investigation by the Lakehurst Police Department, led by Chief Matthew Kline and Officer Christian Hernandez, and the Ocean County Department of Consumer Affairs Cyber Fraud Unit, led by Investigator Anthony Fontana. The scheme began with a customer complaint filed in August 2023 after a victim suspected a skimming device had been installed on one of the gas pumps. Investigators from the Consumer Affairs Cyber Fraud Unit quickly ruled out a physical skimmer — the pumps were clean — which forced a more troubling conclusion: someone with direct card access was the source. Singh, who was working the pump island, had been using his personal phone to photograph customers' credit cards on both sides, capturing full card numbers and CVV security codes during the routine transaction handoff, then using that information to make unauthorized online and in-store purchases totaling thousands of dollars across at least five confirmed victims, with investigators believing the actual victim count was higher. After Singh was terminated, the current owner of Fuel 4 cooperated with authorities in a sting operation, placing a call to Singh under the false pretense that he was being rehired. When Singh arrived at the station to collect his apron and return to work, he was met at the door by Consumer Affairs investigators and Lakehurst police officers and arrested without incident. Singh, who was in the United States on a passport and residing in Brooklyn, New York at the time of his arrest, faces up to $50,000 in civil fines on conviction in addition to the criminal charges.

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