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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: 1) by purple_cobra on Thursday December 01 2016, @01:53PM
Early adoption problem? Chip and PIN has been the norm in the UK for a long time now and as stated by other posters, there's no delay at all: stick card in reader, tap in code, wait a second or two and it's all authorised. They use some ancient dial-up - you can actually hear the modem! - system in a nearby corner shop but that still only takes around 20 seconds, if that.
The systems you're describing sound awfully like the one I had to use back in 1998 while working a shitty job in a shitty firm owned by a cheap bastard. Poor customers are stood there with disbelieving looks on their faces while I'm apologising for not having something made this century to read their credit card.