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Visual Autopsy Of An ATM Card Skimmer
Bert64 writes "A chap at work was recently the victim of an ATM card skimmer which took his card details, cloned them and allowed the fraudster to take 550 pounds out of his account.
Having tried to explain how the fraudsters can hide a camera and card reader around the ATM, he decided it would be easier to show one of them after a few drinks down the pub.
He was a little surprised to find that the machine he chose had a card reader and camera in place. These were removed and analysed, we believe we have reclaimed about 800 pounds worth of kit. Result:
Pictures."
Holy cow! That's a lotta dollars! Hope he hurt his back carting it all away. ;)
recover 800 pounds worth of equipment and incurr 2000 pounds of bandwidth costs bragging about it. The guy who lost the 550 pounds is going think that was nice compared to what just got done to him by slashdot.
Papa Legba come and open the gate
or am I just missing something?
:)
Maybe the ATM designers just happen to be the same folks that are installing the cameras and readers.
It goes from God, to Jerry, to me.
I seriously wouldn't have an idea as to how to get money from a teller. You like show your ATM card or something?
Have all Slashdotters run around ATMs and check for card skimmers. If found, remove card skimmer, take home, disassemble, build into $anything, add keypad and have your own PIN access system to $anything! All the while doing the rest of the world a favour by taking away card skimmers! Woot!
Hate me!
What ever happened to "Stick 'em up"?
s/up/in/
Well, at my bank you go inside, fill out a withdrawal slip (which is very much like a check, but you also have to write your account number on it).
Then, you get in line behind a large number of old people and people who can barely speak English, and for variety, some old people who can barely speak English-- all of whom have little idea of what they want/need, and all of whom will actually try to haggle with tellers over a few cents of interest.
After waiting for a very long time and getting irritated at the stupid things you overhear the people in front of you say, it's your turn. You give the withdrawal slip and a photo ID (usually a driver's license) to the teller, and they process it and give you your money.
If ATMs didn't exist so I could avoid all of the above, I would probably keep my money in my mattress. The bank needs a special express line for people who are under 50 years old, can speak English well, and have very simple transactions to make. Just like the post office needs one for people who have well-packaged, correctly-addressed outgoing mail and the cash to pay for postage in hand-- because that's another place I hate standing behind clueless retards.
~Philly
A card reader on ebay: $100
Sony digital camera: $500
Memory stick: $500
Profit: PRICELESS!
> the place could already be under surveillance, giving THEM the blame for the crime...
That was the brilliant part of their scam. After removing the device and cleaning out all the bank accounts, they posted the whole thing to the Internet to create a cover story in case they were watched!
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the story of the ATM machine left infront of a convenience store. People whould come up to it insert their card, type the pin and be presented with an error saying there is no more money left in the machine. A week later the machine disappeared. All the people who had used the ATM had given the data form their ATM cards and pin numbers to a fake machine that was logging the info!
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
Drunk guy: Here, I took this from an ATM machine *hicup*
Police guy 1: Destroing private propriet while drunk uh?! You are under arrest!
Police guy 2: These gang ppl are getting even dumber!
I can only think of one place to press in my PIN on a teller, and I'm sure she'd slap me.
Rule #1: Always remember which machines you've bugged so you don't accidentally expose your work during "investigations."
Rule #2: If you fail to follow Rule #1, act surprised and shocked at your "fortunate discovery."
Rule #3: If your work is exposed, especially in a Rule #2 setting, be sure to dismantle it so the destination can't be traced.
-- @rjamestaylor on Ello
You idiot! You just stole your bank's security camera
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
That must be why they have braile numbers on the drive up atms
A fine is a tax you pay for doing wrong and a tax is a fine you pay for doing all right.
I have a feeling these card skimmers only work on specific models of ATMs (most likely, the little privately owned units you see in restaurants and gas stations, as opposed to actual bank-owned ATMs).
I wouldn't bank on that.
Sorry, someone had to say it.
Brittish cops don't solve crimes they issue case numbers.
selling (or even just giving) a burned DVD of Star Wars should be illegal
I agree, and if that DVD is Attack of the Clones or Phantom Menace, selling any DVD of it should be illegal.
You call me a pedant? I prefer the term "correct"
Here's some great tips on how not to get scammed at the ATM. It's also got some images of a modified ATM...
This makes Canada an ideal vacation place. I might spend Spring Break robbing Canadian banks. See ya soon.
Your wrong. They didn't deport him, they sent him back to his riding...
And for those of you who failed to get the joke, check out the Federal government in Canada and the word Scandal.
This just proves that you should smack every machine a few times before and after you use it. If you smack it hard enough you get a few spare parts and protoect your credit. I have taken to kicking, shacking, and hitting every vending maching I use in the name of safty. BTW the same thing applies to people, but with them I have found poking with stick to be the best method.
If you're going to go to the trouble to tell people that POS is not an acronym for piece of shit, you could at least have mentioned that it does does stand for Point of Sale (in this case)
If you've ever had to support them (particularly those that some PHB has picked out without consulting his IT people), you'll know that that's generally a fully dual-meaning acronym.
Slashdot's token middle-aged housewife
But, here's the problem: not only do they offer banking and postal services at the same wickets, they also don't seem to have discovered the marvelous North American method of having one line up for multiple tellers. You don't really appreciate having the first available clerk can always help whoever has been in line longest, until you live out the alternative.
So, you go to the post office with your single envelope, correctly addressed, just needs to be weighed and have postage slapped on it... You have to carefully scan the lines, and suss out the people waiting. That fellow with the big fat envelope - is he mailing something in bubble wrap, or is it full of unsorted petty cash and small cheques that need to be deposited into three different accounts? That lady with the shopping bag - is she checking her PO box, or remortgaging her house?
What is the robbing of a bank, compared to the founding of a bank? -- Bertolt Brecht
...or if you're three-handed like this guy then you can use two hands to cover the third!
How do they know, tinfoil-hat man? Data mining! They know when and where you'll be taking that cash out, oh yes they do.
sulli
RTFJ.
This could explain why the people in front of me in ATM queues always take so long.
I'd always assumed they were incompetant morons. Perhaps they are just security concious and are waiting 15 seconds before typing their pin in case a camera is recording.
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Getting arrested for vandalizing an ATM: Priceless. :P
If you're going to complain about 'grammer' [sic], then, at least try to spell ridiculous correctly.
Signatures are a waste of bandwi (buffering...)
- The bank needs a special express line for people who are under 50 years old, can speak English well, and have very simple transactions to make
They tried that, but all the old people who can't read English kept standing in it.Ah, yes. This is one of those irregular verbs, isn't it? I Sponsor, you Lobby, he Bribes?
-Hentai [in vita non pacem est]
So what? 64k canadian is what like 4 dollars?
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WHO ATE MY BREAKFAST PANTS?
Okay all you Slashdot-hacker-types. Now that you're all going to go out and make your own customized ATM cards as part of the new fad, don't forget to make your own ATM networks to go along with it.
And, while your're at it, why not your own currency system as well?
Just make sure gobs of the new currency doesn't unnecessarily get funneled off into the pockets of corrupt politians and global corporations as is the case with the current system.
Through the magic of this new "real number" system just now being developed we are able to now handle such tricky numbers as 28.4 and 17.1234. It's cutting edge and not everyone can "get" it, but I have real hope fractional numbers will take off in the future.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
its not dollars in canada anymore, we now call them "northern peso's"
But the case will be built on the testimony of those involved - witnesses. If nobody wants to cooperate, what's Inspector Gadget to do?
Umm... go go gadget sodium pentathol?
-a
Similar to the system we had when I worked at Kinko's, though it was based on an OS/2 server.
It was the graveyard shift's job to wait until around 3 a.m., when there were no customers in the store, to do the daily backup. It took about 15 minutes, and the entire POS system had to be shut down. (I was working graveyard in a giant location with a second floor, so there were 9 machines we had to go around and log out.) The drawers did not open while the system was shut down (there was no way to open them, as you had to log in to use the interface) but sometimes we would leave a cash drawer open in case someone came in just desperate to make their copies quick and pay cash and leave.
One time, we started the backup right after a couple left the store at about 3:30 a.m. They returned about five minutes later, and wanted to do something else. We apologized for the situation, but explained that we would be unable to accomodate them for a couple of minutes. The guy actually threatened to beat up my co-worker for telling him this. (Meanwhile, his girlfriend was mortified by his machismo.)
My co-worker, thinking on his feet, told him he couldn't "take it outside" with him because he was on duty. When asked what time he got off work, he promptly answered 9:00 a.m., and the guy promised to return. I managed to keep a straight face through this exchange, even though I knew for a fact that Bruce clocked out promptly at 7:00 each morning.
Don't you wish your girlfriend was a geek like me?
~30 below is when it starts being a real problem.
Come directly north to Manitoba, we only put on clothes at -30. A light jacket at -40. Wool socks and mitts when the temperatures start to be announced in Kelvin.
Trolling is a art,
Yep, and last year's "growth" of the U.S. economy matches the fall of its dollar.
Actually, in this specific case it doesn't matter. -40 degrees is the same temperature in both the Centigrade and Fahrenheit scales!
"The biggest thing seems to have been the size"
I tend to find that as a rule, the biggest thing of most things is its size. If it gets any bigger, its size grows to accomodate it.
Bob.