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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."
I got yelled at and had to pull the plug. Sorry about that. :(
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I have a confession to make - a few years back, when Dolce and Gabanna started to become popular, I once asked a guy where he had got his Desmoes and Geddes T-shirt, as I'd like to get one.
And yes - I'm a poor limey bastard.
oh brave new world, that has such people in it!
Great Sig. So true it hurts.
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It should be working. I don't know why you're having problems. Other people are downloading OK. Maybe try following the link directly from the tracker (scroll down a little), but it should make no difference.
I moderate - and I nearly always moderate up, because posts are lost in the morrass that is Slashdot anyway, and modding posts down is a waste of time unless they are offensive, at which point an answer is better than moderation.
Thankyou, asshole moderator - go away and learn to mod properly.
I'll waste some karma here, just for the metamods to agree or disagree.
oh brave new world, that has such people in it!
fancy metric system
OT but anyway...
I've never understood how the metric system can be thought of as fancy or tricky by most Americans. It's all base 10. 10 millimetres equals a centimetre, 100 centimetres equals a metre, therefore 1000 millimetres in a meter (milli meaning 1000), and 1000 meters in a kilometre. Simple. Imperial units are all over the damn place... 12 inches in a foot, 3 feet in a yard, 1760 yards in a mile... conversions between different sized metric units is extremely easy compared to imperial.
Now my question is this.. how can the metric systems be seen as complicated when compared to the in consistent imperial system?
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It's only because you are all too stupid that you can't fucking handle the cahnge.
No, it's only because we're so omnipotent, we don't have to.
"Oh, well I'm sorry if you don't appreciate my random murders!" - Crow T. Robot,
Weak dollar during an economic recovery? Who could have asked for better conditions? People will be snapping up American goods since they're cheaper than ever. It's great timing, actually.
This logic would only apply if the U.S. didn't have such a huge trade-deficit. In past times this was compensated by the U.S. attracting foreign funds to the finance markets, but now nobody seems to be willing to invest there.
Now I know that there is a arbritary number of Centigrade degrees between water freezing and boiling (100 there are, physics majors may disagree).
But there are not enough degrees in the human comfort range,and this is where Centigrade is not as good as Fahrenheit temperature scale.
I suspect, but I'm not sure, that the range 0 to 100 degrees in Fahrenheit is the absolute maximum range that a man can do a full day's work outside. Below 0 deg F, it's too cold regardless of the amount of clothing. Above 100 degrees, it's too hot.
Centigrade is a pain because there are not enough degrees in the range that the most important; the human comfort zone. Weather temperature is never expressed in tenths of degrees Centigrade.
I've never understood why some people claim that the Centigrade scale is 'better, more advanced' than the Fahrenheit scale.
Everybody in the world should just switch back to Fahrenheit.
1. If you can, go to a supermarket... cashback
People here have been robbed by paying at stores with their ATM card.
instead of paying stupid ATM fee
ATM fee? ATMs are free. That stupid gum costs money.
2. Use your credit card to withdraw cash
Out here that costs SERIOUS money. Like $7 per use. Regardless of how much you withdraw. Regardless of how fast you pay.
How will using your credit card reduce risks?
I ordered some equipment and paid by credit card. Delivery was promised in 2 to 3 days. They failed to deliver for two weeks. I then told them I had gotten the equipment differently, so I would cancel the order. They said: OK. you'll have your money back in 10 days. 20 days later I'm still out of my money, and the credit card charges my money to my account. So I call the credit card company, and they tell me they can't reverse the charge.
This company had nothing on me except my number and expiration date. And they shipped the item to a completely unrelated address. (I tried to enter my work-address but mistyped it. I told the people there to call me when the package would arrive, and they eventually did (after I had cancelled the order)).
It is now official - Netcraft has confirmed: *PINs are dying.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *PIN community when recently IDC confirmed that *PIN accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all ATM transactions. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that PINS have lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *PINs are collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by falling dead last Numerical Banking poll.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *PIN's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *PINs face a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *PINs because *PINs are dying. Things are looking very bad for *PINs. As many of us are already aware, *PINs continue to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. ATM PINs are the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core customers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time *PIN developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: *PINs are dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Banking leader Theo states that there are 70,000,000 users of Credit Card PINs. How many users of ATM PINS are there? Let's see. The number of Credit Card PINS versus ATM PINs posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 70,000,000/5 = 14,000,000 ATM users. Phone Card PIN posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of ATM PIN posts. Therefore there are about 7,000,000 users of Phone Card PINs. A recent article put Class Registration PINs at about 80 percent of the *PIN market. Therefore there are (70,000,000+14,000,000+7,000,000)*4 = 364,000,000 Class Registration PIN users. This is consistent with the number of Class Registration PIN posts.
Due to the troubles of the savings and loan scandals of the 1980's and post-9/11 America, abysmal sales and so on, PINs-of-America, Inc. went out of business and was taken over by PIN'O'Matic who sell another troubled PIN generator. Now Enron is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *PINs have steadily declined in market share. *PINs are very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *PINs are to survive at all it will be among magnetic stripe hobbyist dabblers. *PINs continue to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *PINs are dead.
Fact: PINs are dead.
-- The Genesis project? What's that?
Spoken by someone who is not familiar with the Bastard, no doubt. Then again, you're probably not worthy anyway. :-)
20 January 2017: the End of an Error.