breaking news! people begin to use pulsators to get gas for 1 penny a gallon!

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It’s a pump and dumps scheme.

Four Florida men were busted for installing devices inside gas pumps that dropped prices down to nearly nothing — an alarming trend that officials said will only spread with fuel costs soaring.



The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services said the suspects installed sophisticated “pulsators” inside pumps that regulate price and fuel flow.

The devices sent per gallon costs plunging down to just pennies and allowed pumpers to fill up for almost free.

The fraudsters allegedly pulled off the scheme at two separate Circle K stations in Lakeland and Lutz.

Rogelio Llerena and Yulier Garcia-Martinez were busted on March 12 while topping off an oversized gas tank in Lakeland.