Police have taken down an entire card scamming lab set up in Regina.

It was after a number of businesses in Lumsden and Davidson were targeted. Their debt terminals compromised allowing the alleged thieves to copy banking information and use it in fake cards.

On Friday RCMP, assisted by Regina police, arrested three men from Quebec. The next day officers found the lab inside the Regina home.

Jean-Francois Desgroseilliers-Cummings, 30, Toufic Abboud, 30 and Maad Chabbi, 31, all of Quebec, have been charged with theft, possession of stolen property, possession of equipment to forge credit cards, possession of credit card data and identity theft. They are expected to appear in Provincial Court in Regina on Wednesday.

Police are reminding everyone to watch their bank statements and report any strange activity on their own accounts.

On Tuesday, the RCMP showed how such crime is possible.

Sgt. Scott Lambie showed reporters some of the equipment seized from a card forging lab busted in Regina.

He explain individuals will go to a shop and distract the cashier, not only steal the debit pin pad but to replace it with another one.

Then, with the recorded card information and pin numbers, fake cards are made.

They don't look like your average bank cards. The criminal uses them to go to a convineice store bank machine and take out the max amount of cash.

It's not just happening here. Sgt. Lambie say it's happening all over the country and could be tied to organized crime.

Edited by News Talk Radio's Sabeen Ahmad and Karen Brownlee.