FYI - These have already been found on ATMs in the Pacific Northwest recently. The caution word on the news is, if the card slot, or anything else on the ATM looks different or tampered with, you probably shouldn't use it. Also, be sure to cover the key pad as you enter your PIN. The bad guys are using telescopes, binoculars and possibly security type cameras that they have added to the ATMs to capture PINs being entered. The banks get clear pictures of the guys installing this stuff from the cameras in the ATMs but the installers are likely just small cogs in a large group of bad guys and they can keep moving from town to town.
While these were not discussed in the news report I saw, I would guess self check-out machines at grocery stores & such are also susceptible.
Maybe the unemployment numbers will improve if everyone starts demanding to interact with humans instead of machines.
Bernie
--- In artshow_photo@yahoogroups.com, James Dunn <denanjums@...> wrote:
>
> The latest "skimmers" are less than 1/8 thick and flexible
> enough to "wrap" around current devices making even
> handheld devices succeptible. Source Dallas Morning
> News about two weeks ago showed pictures of these
> new skimmers. They also capture the pin numbers.
> They are wireless and transmit the data to the crooks.
> The range wasn't specified. These skimmers don't make
> actual electrical contact with the real scanner, they capture
> the signal via inductance. They only need to be very close.
>
> The crooks wrap these devices around point-of-sale
> terminals and if the store clerks aren't wary enough
> to spot the extra "wrap" then the crooks skim until
> they remove them. The crooks prefer debit cards so
> they can empty an account in about an hour.
> I doubt if an artist would fail to notice the extra wrap
> on his/her machine.
>
> --
> James Dunn
> www.ImagesByJamesDunn.com
>
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