I work for a credit union and we have seen these but the really scary skimmers are your waiters and waiteresses. They have full access to your card and code from the back of your card.
Sent from my iPhone On Jan 15, 2010, at 11:35 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: > I knew about skimmers, but this is going to a whole new level. > > Wow. > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 20:25, Angus Scott-Fleming <[email protected] > > wrote: >> You want scary on a Friday evening? Check this out. Talk about >> the perfect >> bank-account-looting tool - it captures your card info AND your PIN >> and >> texts them to the bad guys immediately. I don't know if I could have >> detected this hacked ATM. Scary! Pix were taken by Mykko Hyponnen >> of >> F-Secure: >> ATM main view: http://twitpic.com/4pko1 >> ATM close-up of the slot: http://twitpic.com/4pkn3 >> ATM showing capture camera (in phone): http://twitpic.com/4pknu >> ATM slot skimming device: http://twitpic.com/4pkmn >> ATM closeup of phone & batts: http://twitpic.com/4pkmj >> Here's another skimming device that was mounted on a Citibank ATM: >> Would You Have Spotted the Fraud? — Krebs on Security >> http://www.krebsonsecurity.com/2010/01/would-you-have-spotted-the-fraud/ >> Pictured below is what’s known as a skimmer, or a device made to b >> e affixed >> to the mouth of an ATM machine and secretly swipe credit and debit >> card >> information when bank customers slip their cards into the machines >> to pull >> out money. Skimmers have been around for years, of course, but >> thieves are >> constantly improving them, and the device picture below is a >> perfect example >> of that evolution. >> This particular skimmer was found Dec. 6, 2009, attached to the >> front of a >> Citibank ATM in Woodland Hills, Calif. Would you have been able to >> spot >> this? >> >> >> -- >> Angus Scott-Fleming >> GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona >> 1-520-895-3270 >> ~! >> >> >> >> >> > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
