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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."
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
How much is that in kilos?
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or am I just missing something?
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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!
About 250 Kilograms... man I love google...
Holy cow! That's a lotta dollars! Hope he hurt his back carting it all away. ;)
Sadly, with the current exchange rate 550 GBP is almost 550 lbs. of USD.
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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
> 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!
- For the complete works of Shakespeare: cat
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
"The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it." Abe Simpson
But I'm sure what we all really want to know is, how much is that in Libraries of Congress?
--joedoe
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.
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
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
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?
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.
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
Watch out when you get to 132, you might upset some passerby.