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posted by on Wednesday November 30 2016, @08:57AM   Printer-friendly
from the look-before-you-slide dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

KrebsOnSecurity gives us a look at credit card skimmers from a side we may not have seen before, skimmer salespeople showing exactly how to install them.

Traditional ATM skimmers are fraud devices made to be placed over top of the cash machine's card acceptance slot, usually secured to the ATM with glue or double-sided tape. Increasingly, however, more financial institutions are turning to technologies that can detect when something has been affixed to the ATM. As a result, more fraudsters are selling and using insert skimming devices — which are completely hidden from view once inserted into an ATM.

The fraudster demonstrating his insert skimmer in the short video above spends the first half of the demo showing how a regular bank card can freely move in and out of the card acceptance slot while the insert skimmer is nestled inside. Toward the end of the video, the scammer retrieves the insert skimmer using what appears to be a rather crude, handmade tool thin enough to fit inside a wallet.

A sales video produced by yet another miscreant in the cybercrime underground shows an insert skimmer being installed and removed from a motorized card acceptance slot that has been fully removed from an ATM so that the fraud device can be seen even while it is inserted.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by rob_on_earth on Wednesday November 30 2016, @03:57PM

    by rob_on_earth (5485) on Wednesday November 30 2016, @03:57PM (#434953) Homepage

    or more importantly "they are doing it wrong". chip and Pin in the UK is for the most part instant. I agree that some places cashiers have to hit a button to authorize the transaction but that is rare and only takes a few extra seconds if they are paying attention.

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