Credit card skimmers hit Darwin

Skimmers have targeted a credit card user in Darwin.

Following the use of an ATM in the Northern Territory city which had been tampered with by such criminals, a man discovered that some $1,800 had been fraudulently taken out of his account.

Upon contacting his bank, the credit card was cancelled as he was told that cash had been withdrawn in $600 lots from ATMs in Indonesia and Canada, Northern Territory News reports.

Commenting on the theft, Jon Linehan, head of the Defence Force Credit Union, points out it is the first case of credit card skimming to have happened in Darwin.

"We normally look for patterns of fraud but this is the first one we've ever seen there," Mr Linehan states, with the credit union since reimbursing the amount of money stolen on the credit card.

Brian Hay, Detective Superintendent of Queensland Police, recently pointed out a number of ATMs in the state have been used as skimming devices by Russian and Bulgarian criminals.