skimming

"While you walk off to try another machine, the skimming device has already stolen your card details," Stapleton explains.

But that is still only skimming the surface.

According to DOJ officials, Graur would steal EBT card information by attaching “sophisticated skimming devices” to ATMs and other sales machines across Los Angeles and the Inland Empire.

Sure, those are private matters, but skimming the surface like this only serves to bolster an image of an actor reformed.

Instead of casually wading into the shallow end, skimming the surface with tepid bits of history about Mansfield’s life and career, Hargitay opts for a cannonball.