Interesting if it is card holder present fraud.
Last year it was reported that a man-in-the-middle attack had learnt how to fake the chip-n-pin auth response at the terminals. Wonder if it's an industrial automated version of this hack?
http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/10/how-a-criminal-ring-defeated-the-secure-chip-and-pin-credit-cards/