Two men were ar­rest­ed in Trinci­ty Mall around 4:30 pm yes­ter­day, with equip­ment used to skim bank cards.

Cell phone footage showed the men ly­ing on the ground, near the Sco­tia­bank au­to­mat­ed teller ma­chine, while their be­long­ings were be­ing ex­am­ined by plain clothes po­lice of­fi­cers.

The video showed a de­vice on the ground, while the per­son who record­ed it said it was a skim­mer that was be­ing used by the men to mine users’ ATM card pins.

The Po­lice Ser­vice lat­er is­sued a state­ment con­firm­ing that they re­cov­ered over 21 coun­ter­feit cards from the men.

The state­ment said, “Of­fi­cers act­ing on in­tel­li­gence went to Trinci­ty Mall’s Sco­tia­bank Au­to­mat­ed Trans­fer Ma­chine (ATM) where they ob­served the ma­chine to be rigged with a for­eign de­vice. The of­fi­cers sur­veyed the area and ob­served that two men ap­proached the ma­chine and re­moved the de­vice. The men were ar­rest­ed and found to be in pos­ses­sion of over 21 coun­ter­feit cards.”

Po­lice say in­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing.

Skim­mers es­caped with over $27 mil­lion in two years be­tween the start of 2017 and the end of 2018.