February 24th, 2004
Why Chip and PIN can’t come fast enough…
from: A Slashdot Article.
“A chap at work was recently the victim of an ATM card skimmer which took his card details, cloned them and allowed the fraudster to take 550 pounds out of his account. Having tried to explain how the fraudsters can hide a camera and card reader around the ATM, he decided it would be easier to show one of them after a few drinks down the pub. He was a little surprised to find that the machine he chose had a card reader and camera in place. These were removed and analysed, we believe we have reclaimed about 800 pounds worth of kit.”
Yikes! Shouldn’t they have left it in place and informed the police though?
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tom says:
that happened to me, i saw the skimmer and thought, that looks wierd (it was attahced with double sided sticky pads) unfortunately i assumed that having opened about 5 minutes ago some member of barclays staff would have checked the cash and that the attachment was just some kind of temporary repair work or something where someone had taken a crowbar to the machine. Very annoying.
February 24th, 2004 at 5:01 pm