Businesses beware -- a store clerk in Camden, New Jersey, said he caught potential thieves placing a card skimmer at his checkout counter. Police are now searching for the people behind it.

“And I look at my card reader over here and I see it right on there and I just grabbed it and ripped it off," said Anderson Fernandez of Fernandez Food Market.

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Fernandez said it almost looked identical to the real deal, but it wasn't. He ripped a skimming device off his card reader seconds after he said a customer put it there.

“All I hear from behind me is plastic trim going into place. And when I turn around, I look at my card reader and I immediately see it on there," said Fernandez.

Fernandez said while he was h

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