Related media Travel deals Joseph Nappi, an Internet marketing executive who lives in Old Bethpage, was at work in Manhattan in March when he got an alert that his checking account balance was low. When Nappi investigated, he found that thieves had drained $1,900 from his bank account. Police believe Nappi, 31, had become another victim of what experts say is a fast-growing financial crime on Long Island and around the nation: bank card skimming. In it, a thief installs a fake card reader, usually over the legitimate card reader slot on an automated teller machine or over the card reader for the door to a lobby containing an ATM -- or both. The fake readers steal the data from cards'...
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