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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 30 2016, @05:34PM
Was issued chip cards over the summer and have used them at a few stores. This is in NE USA, many merchants have not changed to new equipment yet for whatever reason (could be cost). Every time I've used the chip the response time has been longer than a swipe. A couple of times I took the card out too soon--it's an extra step to wait and watch for the "safe to remove your card" message. Compare to swiping and putting the card back in wallet, and then moving to collect the items purchased.