A couple of days ago at the Tesco supermarket that I said had insufficiently shielded chip'n'pin keypads, an elderly lady paid for her groceries with her debit card and had GBP50.00 cash back (drew 50 pounds out of her bank account at the checkout). A young lad used his photo mobile phone to send a picture of her to his mates outside in the carpark. When she came out of the store, one of them snatched her bag with the money in, jumped into the car his mates were waiting in and they sped off.
With keypads insufficiently shielded, someone could text the numbers they either worked out that you'd pressed, or saw you press, to someone outside the store, who could then steal your card in whatever you had it in and wreak havoc with your bank account until you could put a stop on transactions. Being shocked, it could take you some time to get yourself together enough to call the right number to get a stop on it. My only other thought is to take a cloth with me to put over the keypad so no-one could see or work out what keys are being pressed. Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
